I’m having trouble wrapping my head around the scale of the problem of nuclear waste. If we took all the nuclear waste produced in a year and evenly blended it into all gasoline burned in a year would the radiation be deadly? Dangerous? Detectable?

It’s easiest to get numbers for the US.

2 000 000 kg of waste per year

510 000 000 000 Liters of gasoline

Obviously this isn’t a real proposal, although I think it would reduce carbon emissions…

  • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    What if we, come on guys I’m serious, what if we mixed it with bourbon?

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      1 year ago

      2.5 million barrels per year x 200 liters per barrel = 500 million liters

      So about 1000 times smaller volume than gasoline. So 1000 gains of sand worth per liter.