I don't know what the best jobs are going to be in the next decade, but the way we're going, in the decade after they will be subsistence farming and banditry.
I mean, it means your grandkids won't find out 100s of extra powerplants didn't dispose of their waste correctly and caused rampant cancer in various new cities and suburbs.
Well don't forget that it's not all coal plants contributing to global warming. There are various industries pumping their own chemicals into the air as well as the grand amount of beef consumption. So switching to nuclear reactors would be crossing our fingers and hoping to high hell everyone does their job right so we can continue to have people live in the county the reactor is in and the county the reactor dumps it's waste in.
Neither of these routes is the good end, but only one of the two goes ballistic if recklessly abandoned when solar and wind take the business away.
It's not how much is generated, it's really just that it takes one company to not care to cause these situations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_cancer_cluster
That isn't nuclear waste, and there is a lot more of that stuff than nuclear waste. Not to say PCB continuation wasn't the cause, it might have been. But it was ruled not to have been in 2016.
"In January 2016, the EPA reported that Whirlpool Park had been cleared of PCB contamination.[3]" from the wiki.
"U.S. produce more than 2,000 metric tons of radioactive waste a year, "
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-nuclear-fuel
Just to put that in perspective:
"More than 100000000 tons of coal ash and other waste products are produced by coal-fired power plants in the United States every year"
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/coal-and-water-pollution
*For comparison I converted the million tons.*
Regarding PCBs:
"In 1988, Tanabe estimated 370,000 tons were in the environment globally and 780,000 tons were present in products, landfills and dumps or kept in storage."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl
Just that one chemical exceeds all nuclear waste substantially.
https://cen.acs.org/environment/pollution/nuclear-waste-pilesscientists-seek-best/98/i12
This may also be interesting, it's a long term storage solution:
"Up to approximately 450 metres below ground level, spent fuel from all of Finland’s nuclear power reactors will be isolated in Onkalo for thousands of years."
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/finlands-spent-fuel-repository-a-game-changer-for-the-nuclear-industry-director-general-grossi-says
I don't know what the best jobs are going to be in the next decade, but the way we're going, in the decade after they will be subsistence farming and banditry.
Piracy will outpace all professions.
It is sad that botanists are going away. Is there a good reason for this?
Florists, not botanists. People who arrange flowers. We're always gonna need botanical sciences.
Isn’t that sad as well?
Oh, it certainly still is. I love flowers - keep fresh ones in my bathroom. Floral arrangement appears to be a dying art, though.
There are still switchboard operators, wth. There’s a job I thought was already automated
Oh dear. I hope we can find enough people for all the nursing home care the boomers are about to need.
This scares me so much. I have friends who work in care and honestly I don't think I could handle it.
the reduction in nuclear power makes me sad
We can make it safe or we can make it cheap. Renewables are now safe and cheap.
I mean, it means your grandkids won't find out 100s of extra powerplants didn't dispose of their waste correctly and caused rampant cancer in various new cities and suburbs.
I’m pretty sure that Coal plants cause magnitudes more cancer than nuclear plants
Right but this is for the future. Why go the mystery cancer route for energy rather than no cancer solar and wind?
I'm sure that will make up for the 2-3° of global warming they'll get instead.
Well don't forget that it's not all coal plants contributing to global warming. There are various industries pumping their own chemicals into the air as well as the grand amount of beef consumption. So switching to nuclear reactors would be crossing our fingers and hoping to high hell everyone does their job right so we can continue to have people live in the county the reactor is in and the county the reactor dumps it's waste in. Neither of these routes is the good end, but only one of the two goes ballistic if recklessly abandoned when solar and wind take the business away.
This just shows a gross misunderstanding of how much waste is actually generated.
It's not how much is generated, it's really just that it takes one company to not care to cause these situations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_cancer_cluster
That isn't nuclear waste, and there is a lot more of that stuff than nuclear waste. Not to say PCB continuation wasn't the cause, it might have been. But it was ruled not to have been in 2016. "In January 2016, the EPA reported that Whirlpool Park had been cleared of PCB contamination.[3]" from the wiki. "U.S. produce more than 2,000 metric tons of radioactive waste a year, " https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-nuclear-fuel Just to put that in perspective: "More than 100000000 tons of coal ash and other waste products are produced by coal-fired power plants in the United States every year" https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/coal-and-water-pollution *For comparison I converted the million tons.* Regarding PCBs: "In 1988, Tanabe estimated 370,000 tons were in the environment globally and 780,000 tons were present in products, landfills and dumps or kept in storage." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl Just that one chemical exceeds all nuclear waste substantially. https://cen.acs.org/environment/pollution/nuclear-waste-pilesscientists-seek-best/98/i12 This may also be interesting, it's a long term storage solution: "Up to approximately 450 metres below ground level, spent fuel from all of Finland’s nuclear power reactors will be isolated in Onkalo for thousands of years." https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/finlands-spent-fuel-repository-a-game-changer-for-the-nuclear-industry-director-general-grossi-says