<story><title>Nuclear energy is long-term sustainable</title><url>https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2020-10-28-nuclear-energy-is-longterm-sustainable.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jagermo</author><text>Plus, you know, storing the waste for thousands of years without a good place to do so. Payed for by the public.</text></item><item><author>daneel_w</author><text>In Europe everyone knows that. Even the craziest of our &amp;quot;greens&amp;quot; who insist on complete domestic decommissioning know it. The reason a few European countries are shutting their nuclear power plants down isn&amp;#x27;t because they think they are unsustainable, but because they fear they may be targeted and attacked. They &lt;i&gt;currently&lt;/i&gt; view them as the combination of a sitting duck and a powder keg.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcfrei</author><text>A lot of the fuel can be recycled and doesn&amp;#x27;t need to be stored for thousands of years. Storing the remainder underground is mostly a one-off cost except for some monitoring. It&amp;#x27;s a solved problem and only public misconceptions about tectonics and radioactivity are holding it back.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nuclear energy is long-term sustainable</title><url>https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2020-10-28-nuclear-energy-is-longterm-sustainable.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jagermo</author><text>Plus, you know, storing the waste for thousands of years without a good place to do so. Payed for by the public.</text></item><item><author>daneel_w</author><text>In Europe everyone knows that. Even the craziest of our &amp;quot;greens&amp;quot; who insist on complete domestic decommissioning know it. The reason a few European countries are shutting their nuclear power plants down isn&amp;#x27;t because they think they are unsustainable, but because they fear they may be targeted and attacked. They &lt;i&gt;currently&lt;/i&gt; view them as the combination of a sitting duck and a powder keg.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oceanplexian</author><text>Why do the same debunked arguments against nuclear come up? Even if we didn&amp;#x27;t reprocess the waste (Making the issue completely irrelevant) and had to store it, this is a solved problem. Primitive ancient civilizations were able to build structures that lasted thousands of years, I think we can handle burying some rocks in the desert in 2021.</text></comment>