On: Nuclear waste is a solved problem

[maccard]

>But solved problem is strong wording for waste, which you have to keep safe for roughly 4 times the age of the oldest democratic country.

The problem with this argument is we're ignoring that cost of carbon because we don't physically bury it in the ground. We need to compare like for like here.

[sdfzug → maccard]

cost of carbon which is there as much/little with renewables as it is with nuclear

[mcronce → sdfzug]

Only as long as you ignore CO2/methane emissions from the gas plants and supply chain required to provide backup to the renewables

[sdfzug → mcronce]

you simply convert renewables to methane

[sofixa → sdfzug]

If you forego storage and peak plants, and you need at least one.