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Originally posted by acorn: ↑

So you'd be happy to have nuclear waste stored in your community then ?

And of course you'd be happy to have a nuclear power station up the road as well.

Even though very large power stations are already not going to fit into a renewable energy grid anyway.

" Decommissioned wind turbine blades take hundreds of thousands of years to decompose. "Two things about that:

Blades are pretty benign as opposed to nuclear waste which isn't.

The wind industry is already working on recyclable wind turbine blades.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-wind-turbine-blades-could-be-recycled-instead-of-landfilled/

https://resource-recycling.com/plastics/2019/03/27/company-expands-wind-turbine-recycling-operation/

https://reneweconomy.com.au/french-consortium-developing-first-completely-recyclable-wind-turbine-blades-31940/

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ge-announces-first-us-wind-turbine-blade-recycling-program-with-veolia/591869/

" The fly ash from coal fired power stations has to be stored forever. "Good reason to get rid of them then, isn't it ?

Actually , there were a couple of projects where they wanted to mine magnesium from fly ash a few years ago. I'm not sure what happened to them.

https://latrobemagnesium.com/

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China to Japan: If treated radioactive water from Fukushima is safe, ‘please drink it’

The Japanese government has said that the water will be treated further to remove dangerous isotopes and diluted to meet World Health Organisation standards for drinking water, though it would not be able to remove one contaminant, tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen.

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