The obvious disadvantage of nuclear energy is the difficulty in nuclear waste disposal. If you look at our Map of World Nuclear Reactors you have to wonder, wow, with all that fusion going on, where in the hell are all the spent fuel rods going to go? Are they all sitting in cooling containers just “waiting for some place to go”?
The cooling of nuclear power plants and fuel rods have a huge impact on the ecosystem through water heating and contamination. What happened to all the radiation that went into the ocean water during the Fukushima nuclear disaster?
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[...] find out more information about each individual nuclear plant. You have to wonder where all the fuel rods are going, if anywhere, as most are just sitting around cooling and hanging [...]
[...] but conveniently new future technology appears to be prepared to go which may allow those spent fuel rods to be used down to under 5%, that mean we are going to have a lot less waste to cope with, and it [...]