kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: npub170jlj…7n79f 100% agreed, but if anything, nuclear industry is the one that is ...
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100% agreed, but if anything, nuclear industry is the one that is way ahead of other industries in dealing with radioactive waste - it’s the other sectors that stay behind.
For example, waste from coal mines and coal power plants, natural gas wells, rare earth mines etc all result in waste that is technically radioactive. Rare earth metals - used in manufacturing of all modern electronics, including PV and wind turbines, are often co-mined with uranium.
Yet, legally, neither coal ash nor mine tailings nor gas extraction waste are not legally classified as radioactive waste, even if they are have significant emission levels.
That’s one of the absurds of popular perception of radioactivity, just as the “radon spas” popular in Austria and Germany, one of the most radiophobic countries in the world 🤷
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100% agreed, but if anything, nuclear industry is the one that is way ahead of other industries in dealing with radioactive waste - it’s the other sectors that stay behind.
For example, waste from coal mines and coal power plants, natural gas wells, rare earth mines etc all result in waste that is technically radioactive. Rare earth metals - used in manufacturing of all modern electronics, including PV and wind turbines, are often co-mined with uranium.
Yet, legally, neither coal ash nor mine tailings nor gas extraction waste are not legally classified as radioactive waste, even if they are have significant emission levels.
That’s one of the absurds of popular perception of radioactivity, just as the “radon spas” popular in Austria and Germany, one of the most radiophobic countries in the world 🤷
npub1njx4w4u55ru8ys506msgll7t69tpu09k6sshmpd5ajdlrjfntrwqd26peh (npub1njx…6peh)