No it is not. It is also creating waste that lasts a thousand years and is piling up. Ive talked to you before about this. Im not upset about nuclear power, no where have I even come close to saying that. But bashing solar and renewable energy isn't helping anything, especially since it is growing faster than nuclear power and is safer from natural disasters. You are a Luddite, cool, I am rational science based person. There are no great options for the power we currently use. The thing is, solar panels are way more recyclable than spent nuclear fuel seeing as how countries are actually doing it right now which makes the waste footprint way smaller. They don't meltdown in natural disasters and there are these things called batteries that are making them feasible for when the wind doesn't blow and the sun isn't shining. How does nuclear largely pass muster? lets assume that someone offered you a small nuclear plant to power your home, or a solar array. Figure both of these can fully power your home. You are responsible for the waste these produce. Which one do you think you could environmentally dispose of? Lets say you are just a jerk, you can throw your solar cells in a ditch in your backyard or your spent nuclear fuel, which one would you choose? Do you actually think that you would have an easier time of finding someone to take your spent nuclear fuel than your solar cells? Do you think that the manufacture of the uranium will take it back and give you a discount on it? Will the solar cell manufacture take it back and give you a discount on future purchases? Which is more possible? Which would you rather have your deplorable neighbor throw in his ditch next to your house? The fact is we are going to need both, but to bash one when it is much safer is just straight ridiculous.
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"PV Cycle, a European solar panel recycling association, developed a mechanical and thermal treatment process last year that achieves a 96 percent recovery rate for silicon-based photovoltaic panels. The remaining 4 percent is utilized in an energy recovery process, using a waste-to-energy technology. The previous recovery rate for silicon-based panels was around 90 percent, so this new solar panel recycling process is good news for the environment. Non-silicon-based solar panels can have a recovery rate of up to 98 percent." http://earth911.com/eco-tech/recycle-solar-panels/
You know of some place that we can do that with spent nuclear fuel rods? You wiling to transport said spent nuclear fuel rods yourself? Box it up ship it out? No?
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