then the earth turns radioactive
Its expensive, thats why.
If it gets affordable, we start doing it.
If we can afford dumping it into our sun, we start doing it.
Right now no one has the money for it.
We'll still have nuclear waste, the largest source of nuclear waste is actually naturally occurring radioactive material ^^ than we indeed have waste from the powerplants ofc but that is not that much, about 1500kg for a 1gw reactor per year, we are also still stuck with medical and industrial nuclear waste. So even with renewable energy sources we would still have a problem.
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It's just too bad that we don't have any form of technology that can store the energy we get from geothermal- and wind-powerplants in a portable format. I theorise that it could take the form of a portable box of something like that. perhaps with some kind of connectors that allowed you to transfer energy in and out of it. I know the idea sounds a bit batty, but I think it could really work! Hey...maybe we should name it after the batty-ness of the idea...battery or something like that?
The Earth is radioactive already; it's her natural state. Where do you think we are getting the uranium for our power plants in the first place? We dig it out of the ground.
Terrestrial radiation is present everywhere on Earth, mainly caused by Thorium 232, Uranium 235 and 238 and Potasssium 40. Storing all our radioactive waste within the Earth would have no effect on the radioactivity of our planet.
Why don't we use the god damn billion dollar facility we ALREADY HAVE BUILT?
"Death is not kind. It's dark, black as far as you can see, and you're all alone."
I say, launch it into space!
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That really is all that needs be said on this entire thread. What we are doing now is the most cost effective solution to the issue. As technology advances, a better solution may be found, or the creation of said nuclear waste may cease.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
Revelation 6:8
Because that would be the same as burying it in Central Park.
You can't really think that you can hide something forever in the ocean... even less when we don't even know the 80% of it.
I think the OP is trolling
Because there might be shark-people living down there and we wont want them to become radioactive-mutant-shark-people and come to the surface and kill us all. Seriously though its too far down and the current might push it to a lively part of the ocean and it would be expensive.
It would probably be cheaper to gather it all up and once every 6 months or so just launch it into space. More environmentally friendly (for Earth) to do it that way. But, that is still too expensive, and companies will ALWAYS take the cheapest route, which is doing exactly what they are doing now.
Geothermal is nightmarish on equipment, solar and wind are have low dispatchable energy.
Look, I work in RP, and it's getting slightly annoying how many myths people hold on Nuclear Energy. Posting a thread like this invites speculation and ignorance, not discussion of facts.
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co...t061-0055.html
Ask someone that works in the field, or check the website of the agency that regulates it.
1 good reason to not dump radioactive waste in the ocean... Godzilla. We dont need more godzillas.
It would only take a single instance of something going wrong, and then the currents of the ocean in question would become radioactive, and irradiate every location that current reaches. Some flow very close to others so you could potentially have radioactive waste spreading throughout every ocean on the planet.
If you wanted to bury it deep enough to not be a future issue if all goes well then it would cost a hell of a lot of money, and if something did go wrong then the cost to fix it wuld be astronomical, as would be the fallout even if it did get fixed.