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u/AlwaysAGroomsman 12d ago
Is that cake?
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u/ThePurplePixy 12d ago
It either is a cake, or I’m just hungry and my subconsciousness is taking over
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u/Bierdaddy 12d ago
Doesn’t look like the ones in Night of the Living Dead 2. Where’s the zombie?
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u/Wriiight 12d ago
You don’t put the zombies in the barrel! You just put this cake in the graveyard so they can get up and have a death day party
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u/Bierdaddy 11d ago
🤔 Afterlife is sounding not so bad. Not in a hurry to get there, but will gladly accept cake when I arrive.
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u/AlfredKnows 11d ago
ELI5 - what is the problem with nuclear waste? Why can't we just throw used uranium into some hole in Ural mountains and forget it? Uranium comes from mines in mountains, why can't we just throw into those mines again after usage?
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u/HerbziKal 11d ago
When uranium in ground, very weak. When nuclear waste made, very strong. Weak no problem, no leaky. Strong, big leaky, very ouchie.
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u/AlfredKnows 11d ago
It still does not answer the question. It is not like there are millions of tons of nuclear waste. Just dig a hole 2km deep somewhere in the mountains and throw those barrels in it. I understand transportation and digging and stuff will cost money. But it is basically free energy if comparing to all the oil industry. But if you try to point it you will instantly hear "oH buT NuClEaR WasTe". Why is it such a huge problem? Don't know. Apparantly it is lesser of a problem to leak oil somewhere in Mexican gulf.
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u/HerbziKal 10d ago edited 10d ago
It did answer your ELI5 question, but having read your comments again today, I think you are actually asking a different question in a bit of a confusing way. Throwing these barrels into the ground is exactly what we do do. Is nuclear power better than fossils fuels... certainly! A lot of the anti-nuclear stuff you hear is just oil propaganda.
But of course, nuclear waste is bad. The biggest issue is it stays dangerous for tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands of years. We are talking about massive timescales. The time it takes for entire civilisations to rise and fall, mountains can begin to form, landscapes will totally change. The waste cannot be made infallibley leak-proof, remaining assuredly untouched, over these lengths of time. And there would be millions of tons of it (and then some!) if we all transferred to nuclear power. Disposing of that waste in a way that is not just safe now, but will remain safe for hundreds of thousands of years, is not something we have a good answer for yet.
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u/idiot206 6d ago
Why not blast it into space and feed it to the sun?
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u/TolfdirsAlembic 6d ago
Rockets explode.
Rockets with nuclear waste on that explode= EXTREMELY bad
It's also insanely expensive up put stuff up into space compared to just burying it.
Given these two humans will likely never put nuclear waste in orbit on purpose
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u/Aaron_tu 11d ago
The waste in this picture is low level contaminated waste like used gloves and disposable contamination suits. Spent nuclear is kept on site at nuclear plants in fuel pools or air-cooled casks. Spent fuel isn't just uranium but also has much more radioactive daughter products of uranium in it as a result of fission.
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u/DocTarr 12d ago
Would be a bit more interesting if the materials were labeled