> THE U.S. GENERATES ABOUT 2,000 METRIC TONS OF SPENT FUEL EACH YEAR
This number may sound like a lot, but the volume of the spent fuel assemblies is actually quite small considering the amount of energy they produce.
> The amount is roughly equivalent to less than half the volume of an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
> And, the clean energy generated from this fuel would be enough to power more than 70 million homes—avoiding more than 400 million metrics tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
You say that you have yet to hear a convincing argument but have you been listening?
I don't know about you, but even a quarter the volume of an Olympic-sized swimming pool emitting radiation for hundreds of years is still a bit too much no?
Why? There are tons of no-go danger zones all over the world already. Creating some more for nuclear waste is a minimal tradeoff. It sounds like you simply don't want to be convinced. You've fallen for the propaganda.
> THE U.S. GENERATES ABOUT 2,000 METRIC TONS OF SPENT FUEL EACH YEAR This number may sound like a lot, but the volume of the spent fuel assemblies is actually quite small considering the amount of energy they produce.
> The amount is roughly equivalent to less than half the volume of an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
> And, the clean energy generated from this fuel would be enough to power more than 70 million homes—avoiding more than 400 million metrics tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
You say that you have yet to hear a convincing argument but have you been listening?