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#Kernenergie #Atommülls #Asse

@aerofreak

That’s actually a very good case study in German radiophobia, because Germany already has two deep geologic repositories (Herfa-Neurode and Zielitz) which already store thousands of tons of highly toxic chemical waste (arsenic, cyanide, mercury etc) from the chemical industry. But because it’s not radioactive, nobody talks about it - which is absurd from physical point of view, because spent nuclear fuel loses 70% of its radiotoxicity in just 100 years, while chemical waste loses its toxicity… never.

https://www.kpluss.com/en-us/our-business-products/waste-management/underground-disposal/

Another gross manipulation is linking Asse with nuclear power, because there’s no spent nuclear fuel stored in Asse - it’s mostly industrial waste legally classified as “radioactive” such as gloves, rubber boots, tools and some medium- and low-level waste from nuclear medicine. Which, of course, everybody happily uses in Germany to treat cancer but nobody talks about abandoning it, because on emotional level it’s impossible to built hysteria around nuclear power but exclude medicine from that.

P.S. I don’t even mention German and Austrian radon spas, because from radiophobic point of view these are huge caves filled with radioactive water… except people go there voluntarily for dubious health effects 😂

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@kravietz

I don’t know where you’ve got the 70 years from, but plutonium-239 only decays by 50% after 24,000 years. Iodine-129, which is also found in nuclear waste, has a half-life of 16 million years.
I suggest you spend a night in one of those storage facilities and we’ll see how you feel about nuclear power afterwards. 😂

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@aerofreak

Oh, forgot this one - that’s the activity (radiotoxicity) level of the specific mix of isotopes found in the spent nuclear fuel that is supposed to be stored in underground storage in long term

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@kravietz

Here's one last. From the same document:

"The hazard created by used fuel diminishes significantly over time. Within *500 years* the most radioactive elements have decayed. However, used
fuel requires isolation and containment from the environment for at least 100000 years."
Because it's so unproblematic? 😃

And it contains plutonium, among others, as I said.

Stop gaslighting!

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