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@luana@wetdry.world
2025-05-21 01:15:46
Content warning: Polemic take about nuclear energy

Why do so many people completely ignore the fact that human error (and human “error”) and negligence exist when talking about how great and safe nuclear energy is?
Sure, you can make super secure nuclear power plants and super resistant containers for waste storage and take selfies hugging those containers all you want, but all it takes is one idiot to want to cut corners and boom you have nuclear waste hanging around in the nature without proper storage.

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-06-10 19:41:17

There is no dependable solution to nuclear waste.
Sellafield already had 90,000 tonnes of reprocessed uranium and 140 tonnes of civil plutonium.
Just 4kg of plutonium makes a nuclear weapon.

@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-05 07:35:46

Reconstructing North Korea's Plutonium Production History with Bayesian Inference-Based Reprocessing Waste Analysis
Benjamin Jung, Johannes Bosse, Malte G\"ottsche
arxiv.org/abs/2506.03865

Reconstructing North Korea's Plutonium Production History with Bayesian Inference-Based Reprocessing Waste Analysis
Although North Korea's nuclear program has been the subject of extensive scrutiny, estimates of its fissile material stockpiles remain fraught with uncertainty. In potential future disarmament agreements, inspectors may need to use nuclear archaeology methods to verify or gain confidence in a North Korean fissile material declaration. This study explores the potential utility of a Bayesian inference-based analysis of the isotopic composition of reprocessing waste to reconstruct the operating hi…

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-08 11:32:42

Nuclear waste is stored in the balls