Touching Hair
Nuclear along with other sources of energy
is the future. Fission reactors are costly and
inefficient
They cost a lot, but they're nearly as efficient as oil plants. (In fact, were it not for the tremendous initial cost, they'd be
more efficient than oil.)
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but fusion has a lot of potential.
We can't switch to fusion, we don't know if we can harness it yet.
The ITER will be ready in 2019, supposedly. If it works, we may be able to switch to it.
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Most of the "waste" produced by a fission reactor isn't dangerous, contaminated by small amounts of radiation that isn't even able to penetrate a typical piece of A4 paper. The reason they have to treat it as a major threat to Human health is because the general public have an odd fear of radiation.
Best part is, not only is the waste protected in a container designed to withstand a bazooka blast, even if it somehow spilled out, because the half life is so long, they could literally just go down to the spill site, and pick it up, no harm done.
The problems with waste stem from groundwater contamination, which takes place over a long period of time. However, if one of the containers is compromised,
we can simply fix it long before this has time to happen.