Joshua (Josh) Clark
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It's not producing power any longer, but it still has all those fuel rods in its spent fuel pool.
It still has dry casks out back and there's still people watching over that stuff because we don't have anywhere to put it.
We're literally leaving them in the spent fuel pools after we turn the power off on the nuclear power plants.
That's what we're doing with our nuclear waste right now.
The only thing I've seen is dilution.
First of all, so they filter out as much of the radionuclides as possible, right?
And there's whole processes for separating those things out from the water.
But there's still some left.
But their premise is that they're adding so much fresh water to it before they dump it into the ocean.
It's fine.
But I think that's a very valid point.
we're talking about nuclear science here.
And this is how far behind the environmental part of nuclear science is lagging that we're just like, it's fine.
Forget about it.
We're just going to dump it in the ocean.
And yes, it's not so bad that they're not treating it first and diluting it first, but it's still, it's like, really, that's what we can do.
That's the best we can do right now.
And the answer is yes.