Act on nuclear waste, now!
Christian Schuster
Researcher in solar PV and nuclear physics | Engineer with broad theoretical expertise | Outdoor and outreach enthusiast
Like Microsoft Windows, our answer to nuclear waste requires an update from time to time, with all the bugs and twists and turns. The latest solution always sounds brilliant, but the debugging attempts never stop...
I was impressed how Dr. Claire Corkhill now nailed the points: We must stop dithering and YOU must take action: What would you do if you had the world’s most dangerous material in your letter box? Will you just hide it from your toddler and her/his future offsprings?
Check out the article on The Conversation or this brilliant video produced by the team at the University of Sheffield (UK):
While the long-lasting “waste” is one issue, dismounting and turning the used materials into radioactive waste can already be a procrastinated problem in itself if existing technology is too labour-intensive. For example, the costs and efforts to recycle the pipes of a nuclear site.
I stand with Science and Research.
3 年Elon Musk of Tesla has been accused of being on the Asperger spectrum. He is planning on colonizing Mars with 1,000,000 people by 2050 sending 100-300 in a launch. He works 110 hrs a week (Albert Edison did also) and prefers his work to interactions with people. Cars, batteries, solar, space, Mars. Do you think he'll make it?
Researcher in solar PV and nuclear physics | Engineer with broad theoretical expertise | Outdoor and outreach enthusiast
3 年MP Meg Hillier, who chairs the public accounts committee: “The UK went from leading the world in establishing nuclear power to this sorry saga of a perpetual lack of knowledge about the current state of the UK’s nuclear sites.”