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…

  • m0darn@lemmy.caOP
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    1 year ago

    Is your proposal basically to burn away nuclear waste?

    No. It’s to disperse it.

    The main problem is the safety and handling of such radioactive waste.

    It was very much not meant as a serious proposal.

    How would this reduce carbon emissions?

    Do you want such a substance sitting in your vehicle, garage, gas station with high traffic, etc