Yet again, none of the examples you've posted are contamination from nuclear waste from power generation. Pre-burnup radiation exposure is not nuclear waste. This isn't a pedantic distinction, someone getting contaminated while manufacturing fuel rods is a totally different failure mode than what we're discussing about waste buried deep underground.
> What about mining waste causing increased cancer and largely poisoning a river?
What about it? Mining copper and rare earth minerals for magnets is polluting too. Producing aluminum to build transmission lines is also polluting. Mining, in general, is a pretty dirty industry. But surely nobody is suggesting we stop building electric motors or transmission lines? Uranium mining is not an exception in this regard.
You've given 3 examples, none of them are contamination from spent nuclear waste from power generation.
bobmcnamara
> none of them are contamination from spent nuclear waste from power generation.
I have no more energy to give people who cannot be precise with their requirements. I get enough of that at work.
> What about mining waste causing increased cancer and largely poisoning a river?
What about it? Mining copper and rare earth minerals for magnets is polluting too. Producing aluminum to build transmission lines is also polluting. Mining, in general, is a pretty dirty industry. But surely nobody is suggesting we stop building electric motors or transmission lines? Uranium mining is not an exception in this regard.
You've given 3 examples, none of them are contamination from spent nuclear waste from power generation.