Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Nuclear waste is not the problem you've been made to believe it is" video.

  1. Nearly everything humans do, in the modern sense, damages or destroys the Earth's ecosystem. Nuclear waste is not good, and it is highly and lethally mutagenic. Not only is nuclear waste from reactors radioactive by degrees, some of these isotopes are highly radioactive for thousands of years. If the main contamination is uranium (typically the primary fuel source) rather than it's daughter isotopes after fission (which can happen in a meltdown accident like Chernobyl), this radioactive contamination potentially lasts for hundreds of milliions of years. The corium (semi-molten material left over from Chernobyl disaster) is still highly radioactive. It has to be checked up on by robots every now and then to monitor it's condition. No human can safely get near it.
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  2. There you go. The many (radioactive) daughter products from fission are still too dangerous to handle safely, over decades let alone thousands of years.
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  3. I've read spurious arguments about the potential harm of nuclear waste. Noteworthy that none of it (except low level waste) is easy to treat or store safety for thousands of years, and other ideas like launching it into space is bombastic nonsense and a potential catastrophe if the launch fails in flight (despite other mostly bad things happening in the past, like operation Starfish Prime). The allegation that nuclear waste has "killed no-one" is both factually and statistically false, just ask the workers who cleaned up after the Chernobyl disaster. Oh sorry, you can't because all of them are long dead,
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