No, it’s NIMBYs protesting shit they don’t know. And fossil fuel bribes so politicians revoke funding for the multiple facilities that have been proposed or even partially built over the years, like Yucca Mountain.
All high level nuclear waste ever produced worldwide, from all reactors, would fit within a football field. It’s not physically hard to store. It’s just politically hard to get anything done because of propaganda and bribery.
And no, there is no solution to deal with all of it.
Yes there is, the fact you are trying to claim there isn’t proves you have done zero actual research on this topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aUODXeAM-k
Nuclear waste in general is easily stored, which is not true of ANY fossil fuel. Fossil fuels vent emissions directly into the atmosphere to spread through the environment. Coal plants are the single largest source of mercury pollution on the planet, which is neurotoxic and never decays, but I bet you didn’t know that Coal even produces mercury at all, and that doesn’t even get into the uranium that Coal burning plants emit into the atmosphere either. A coal plant releases more radioactivity into the atmosphere daily than a nuclear plant does in it’s entire lifespan.
The vast majority of nuclear waste (95%) is low level waste that is inert within as little as a few months and requires little to no shielding. This is the stuff like clothing, tools, papers, gloves, etc. The intermediate level waste usually decays within a few decades and needs shielding, but isn’t a long term issue and easily can be stored on site at the plant and is part of the decommissioning plan made before the plant is even built.
The actual amount of high level nuclear waste (the stuff that needs to be transferred to the cooling ponds before even being moved to any sort of storage) is very small (<1-3%). ALL of the high level waste ever created by every nuclear plant in the world would fit inside a football field sized space.
The only reason it hasn’t been dealt with well is NIMBYs that actively refuse to learn and protest because what they know is propaganda or cartoons (The Simpsons for instance) with zero factual basis. And politicians paid by fossil fuels to kill legislation to build and operate the storage facilities, with funds usually sourced originally through government subsidies.
Everyone always brings up niche options that are highly dependent of the physical region like hydroelectric, tidal, thermal, etc. that massive portions of the country don’t have access to, as if they’re solutions to the base generation from coal and gas.
Coal usage increased by 1% in 2024, up to a total of 10,700 TWh of power globally.
https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2025/coal
Natural Gas produced 6,529 TWh as of 2022.
https://www.iea.org/energy-system/fossil-fuels/natural-gas#tracking
That’s the base generation that nuclear targets. 1,400GW (or 1.4TW) is a large number but with context, it’s a drop in the bucket.
Hence why we’re talking about bringing existing reactors that have been shutdown back online And that doesn’t even get into the newer reactor designs being worked on now. Light water modular reactors, thorium reactors, molten salt reactors, etc. that all can be built faster than the old designs currently in use.
The designs from the 60s and 70s are monolithic behemoths, but a lot of work has been done in recent decades on technologies that were essentially abandoned outside academia back then simply because they couldn’t be used to produce nuclear weapons.
Modern battery storage still cannot guarantee a base load capability 24/7 without massive battery farms multiple times the size of standard usage. What storage is great at is evening out supply to stabilize the grid. Renewables and battery storage will never be base load capable for any sizeable grid region, you simply need too much to handle the modern power requirements of a city, including necessary expansion in the future.
Some people just don’t want to accept that fact, so we sit here with thousands of gas and coal plants still burning every day instead of taking any steps in the right direction, wasting valuable time that we don’t have.
As it is, a coal plant produces more radioactive material than the waste from a nuclear power plant, but it’s allowed to be exhausted into the atmosphere and ignored. And that doesn’t even get into the greenhouse gasses. If these plants were required to actually clean their emissions, they wouldn’t be nearly as “cheap” to operate.
Hydroelectric is great… Apart from the existing entire ecosystem behind the dam that is destroyed to create the lake used to store the energy it then uses.
And that assumes a large enough body of water to pull energy from without depleting that source, especially with climate change shifting weather patterns. Many existing dams are operating at or near minimum levels because of ongoing drought conditions and similar issues.
That’s not an issue at all honestly. We need more nuclear power, it is clean power. Restarting existing reactors that weren’t decommissioned due to issues, is the fastest way to replace base load generation currently provided by things like coal and gas. Solar, wind, etc. are great but they don’t work 24/7/365, so there needs to be a base load to cover that. At the moment, that’s handled by coal and gas in most places.
The issue is it being used for AI slop.
Most of the money ‘lost’ to piracy is money that never existed. With fragmented streaming services one picks what they are paying for and needs to find a way to watch the rest.
This was the very first thing that came to my mind. How much of this “lost” revenue from piracy is actually revenue they lost because the content isn’t available legally where it is being consumed?
You can even self host it… And easily export your data from their hosted solution to your own.
There’s a reason they focus so much on removing voters from the rolls, removing voting locations, making it illegal to provide water to those waiting in line (because they only have a handful of locations after removing them all) and making it just generally harder to vote across the board.
Sorry to remind you that Republicans historically do better in the midterms because more of their voters show up regardless. That’s one of the things the racist old fucks love to do with their copious amount of free time. Watch Fox News and head on down to the voting booths.
For many, it’s likely the only thing they have to look forward to now that many of their families have abandoned them over this shit.
The French do have a flair for the dramatic, which is exactly how fascists operate. Might as well match their drama for the solution.
That won’t happen until they are personally affected.
That’s the single consistent trigger point for every Republican that turns against the party of you’ve been paying attention.
They have to be directly affected … they have to feel it themselves. They are incapable of feeling empathy for others, that’s why they have the perspective they have and don’t do anything about obvious issues. They don’t think they are issues because it’s affecting the others.
Possibly this one about the pregnant 13 year old where they thre the newborn into Lake Michigan and Trump was present?
A woman reported to the FBI that she had been sex trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein from a yacht based near Muskegon in the summer of 1984 when she was 13 years old and pregnant.
According to the report, she told the FBI she gave birth to a baby girl, and her uncle killed and “disposed of the body in Lake Michigan.” The woman said Epstein “was orchestrating a deal” along with her uncle, where “different men, and a few women and girls, would come to a variety of boats and yachts and pay money to force me to do (redacted) with them when I was 13 and pregnant.”
In the report, the woman names President Donald Trump as a witness, saying she knows him because “he participated regularly in paying money to force me to (redacted) with him and he was present when my uncle murdered my newborn child and disposed of the body in Lake Michigan.”
The fact there’s even a question of which murder we’re referring to is outrageous for a US President.
It’s a surprise to CEOs clearly.
Nah, it’s pretty simple actually. If the archive doesn’t exist at all, they can’t even steal from it.
I tried to find something on marketplace a month ago. Dozens of posts because it’s a super common item, all posts were a week or less old. None were legitimate. Every one was a scam, responses all leading to bullshit websites to buy, or users that never responded.
Has to get the item on Ebay instead because apparently they actually have basic scam prevention systems in place while Facebook apparently doesn’t have shit.
Microsoft releases their patches on the same day every month. They do this specifically for planning that sort of thing. Including giving you options in the settings to pause updates for up to 5 weeks.
And that doesn’t even get into the business-oriented options available through things like WSU to give more granular and customized update options for businesses.
If you’re doing something that will take that long… Why aren’t you using the solutions available? Is it because you never bothered to look? You just wanted to complain instead? Because that’s what it looks like when there’s a literal setting dropdown, that’s not hidden at all, that would avoid your example entirely.
Mecha Hitler with direct connections to the US Military network… There are worse ideas. Not many. And I can’t think of them currently. But I’m sure there are.
Windows only does that if you ignore the update prompts multiple times, which means for multiple days since the default delay behavior is to ask a day later. It’s literally in the settings, including options to have it install updates outside suer-set active hours.
But don’t let that get in the way of the realization that most people just ignore shit until the last second and then blame everything but themselves for it when they run out of options. And that the Internet jumps onto bandwagons faster than the speed of light just to feel like they’re included in something.
Considering 99% of people go by what they see on shows like The Simpsons, movies, and games, with things like glowing oozing barrels… It’s a really good bet the average viewer is wrong. Of course an extremely small minority will have more education about it, but given the responses here and in other threads across social media, that’s almost never the case.