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> The cost isn't so much the materials themselves as the regulatory burden imposed by them. You need to guard them indefinitely even after the plant is shut dow
by chimeracoder 2y ago
> The cost isn't so much the materials themselves as the regulatory burden imposed by them. You need to guard them indefinitely even after the plant is shut down.
These are all issues for fossil fuel extraction as well, and I have bad news for you about how this problem is currently handled.
- foxyv 2y agoIn my opinion, the biggest problem with fossil fuel extraction is that it is slowly destroying our biosphere.
- lokar 2y agoExactly. Tons of abandoned oil wells left for the taxpayers to clean up. But of course we can’t demand that all new wells post bonds for the cleanup costs in advance, that would make them unprofitable.