Peter LinkMassive Energy Needs of AI & Cryptocurrencies Lead Amazon, Google & Microsoft to Embrace Nuclear Power
SibboAnd they are surely paying for the thousands of years of waste storage necessary?
oce đWouldnât it be an obvious part of the price they will pay for the electricity? The electricity producer or whatever intermediate in charge of the waste, will bill its work for waste storage, and it will end up on the bill of the energy consumer. What am I missing?
federal reverseYouâre missing that no one ever invested in nuclear if they didnât expect to socialize storage cost.
Long term storage is not supposed to require maintenance over that time, the worry is rather preventing people to dig them up unknowingly in the future. Actually dangerous wastes have way smaller half lives that that.
Long term storage is not supposed to require maintenance over that time
Ideally. Though you can do a 80s Germany: Find a suboptimal storage site right next to the inner-German border, so as to piss off the other side of the Iron Curtain. Surprisingly, you reunite (and it feels so good), except now you have a bunch of contaminated water in your storage site after mere decades.
But quite honestly â how can you predict the fate of even the âsafestâ storage site? Will there be a fracking boom near it in the next 200 years? Something other new technology? And in that sense, it really doesnât matter whether half life is 10k years or 100k years.