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fc417fc802today at 4:35 AM2 repliesview on HN

Do please explain how it's fallacious? I've made the claims that one, there is a sufficiently low volume of waste produced per unit of generation that geologic disposal is affordable and scalable and that two, said geological disposal is in fact safe. Where's the fallacy?

It appears to me that you are attached to a position that you aren't capable of defending.


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bvcptoday at 9:31 AM

also its not really waste, its waste by law only, in reality its unrefined fuel

roenxitoday at 7:11 AM

Also worth seeing that less has to be fundamentally safe at some point, otherwise background radiation would be a threat. If examined on its own without considering the surrounding inert volume, one decaying particle is presumably quite radioactive.

So since less->magically safer is true some point, the argument can't be made fallacious by asserting it is true. The worst the argument can be is unpersuasive (although it is persuasive - from a practical perspective there is a tiny volume of toxic waste, it isn't a reason to block progress).

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