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Environment & Energy

Bmoboy

(416 posts)

7. Safe forever?

Reply to SarahD (Original post)

Wed May 29, 2024, 12:17 PM

May 2024

When the reactors age and parts wear out, when the water source for cooling the reactor dries up or changes its channel, when bombs fall or fires or earthquakes or floods or any natural disasters happen near the reactor, then how safe?

Who is going to be the safety officer for these reactors in a hundred years? Homer Simpson?

Where is the depleted fuel (still emitting radiation) going to be stored? Who maintains the storage sites?

Safe forever?

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