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…

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    1 year ago

    Aerosolized atomic waste, what could possibly go wrong?

    Wait.

    There is a documentary about licking radioactive isotopes that might apply here.

    Search for “Radium City documentary”, watch, then think about that, but breathable.