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I actually find it pretty hilarious when people are so vehemently against burrying nuclear waste - then you mention Oklo to them and they just go all quiet.
Wait, people are against it? Why on earth? Probably the safest place to store that stuff is deep underground, at least anywhere where there's no seismic fuckery going on
Yeah exactly. Mostly it's the "we're creating all this dangerous waste and leaving it for our children to deal with" 🤦♂️ In any case, buried or not, with nuclear waste we at least have good understanding of it, have ways to measure how dangerous the levels are, etc, unlike all the polution from fossil fuels that everyone seems to just be content with.
the way that this specific externality has been blown up into Why We Can't Do Nuclear in the popular conscience but the same has not been done for the horrifying impacts of pollution for coal and natural gas is one of those truly anger-inducing things, especially since many of the people who popularized it and continue to promote it should know better.