On: I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear break...

[Zigurd]

A bit of googling shows there are about 1,000 abandoned uranium mining/prospecting sites in New Mexico. Probably many with uncontained tailings. Yikes. But we can count on extraction projects to clean up after themselves now. Right?

[literalAardvark → Zigurd]

Of course! And they'll also maintain the tailings dam for the thousands of years required.

Why would we even doubt that?

[throwaway50606 → Zigurd]

Do you really think the situation in Russia is better?

[Zigurd → throwaway50606]

No. It is very likely worse. Same for other places with less regulation than the US.

[throwaway50606 → Zigurd]

So, it'd be preferable to move it to the US where it can have better oversight and there's a potential of regulatory-driven change.

[Schroedingersat → throwaway50606]

You're pretending option C "don't give the nuclear scammers more public money" doesn't exist.

[Zigurd → throwaway50606]

No, actually.