Many people here talk about how safe or how cheap it is to use either thorium or uranium. The real problems however are not plant safety or cost, but how to store the huge amounts of nuclear waste. Most of it needs to be stored thousands of years until it's finally safe. There is still no way of doing that, the material is stored in old salt mines without knowing if this will last long enough. Until 1994 it was even legal to just drop it into the sea. This year it was discovered that from the 90s on (until this year!) France was shipping it's nuclear waste to Siberia, where it was stored on a old parking lot. In Italy nuclear waste was packed on old ships by the mafia which then were sank in the mediterranean or atlantic sea. And I'm pretty sure that this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Uranium or thorium, nuclear energy is NOT the future, it's a serious threat to our (grand) children!
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Many people here talk about how safe or how cheap it is to use either thorium or uranium. The real problems however are not plant safety or cost, but how to store the huge amounts of nuclear waste. Most of it needs to be stored thousands of years until it's finally safe. There is still no way of doing that, the material is stored in old salt mines without knowing if this will last long enough. Until 1994 it was even legal to just drop it into the sea. This year it was discovered that from the 90s on (until this year!) France was shipping it's nuclear waste to Siberia, where it was stored on a old parking lot. In Italy nuclear waste was packed on old ships by the mafia which then were sank in the mediterranean or atlantic sea. And I'm pretty sure that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Uranium or thorium, nuclear energy is NOT the future, it's a serious threat to our (grand) children!