Saw the Aurora Borealis at the South Pole. Or was it, the Aurora Australias at the North Pole. Or just some disco lights at the Equator. Well, definitely now, on Earth looking at some things. There is a sky not far, I think above me.
"The UK's nuclear waste problem
Safety concerns as 'highly radioactive' material could be buried in the English countryside"
Choices have consequences. Some choices have consequences that last millennia…
#nuclear #NuclearPower #Sellafield
Large tech firms like Microsoft want the burdens of using #NuclearPower to remain on the state, and position themselves simply as customers for electricity for their AI and datafarm sites. They can afford to build their own nuclear plants, but would prefer the subsidies for construction are on the public, and all of the burdens of waste and decommissioning be on the taxpayers.
They know #nuclear is a terrible investment and burden, so they want you to take that on while they profit.
If you follow #nuclear things, there are stories right now about how Finland is about to put the first nuclear fuel in “permanent" storage. They have been building the Onkalo site to put the spent fuel from their 6 nuclear reactors since 2004.
The key takeaway is that it is more than 80 years since we began generating spent nuclear fuel (the first was by the Manhattan Project to make the plutonium used in the nuclear attack on Nagasaki) and we still have not been able to put one spent fuel rod in "permanent" storage. Finnish waste is far below 1% of global spent nuclear fuel and it has taken this much to get the first rod underground.
Image is of me in a tunnel in Onkalo in 2016.
#Onkalo #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste [@STS](
