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  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzalmonds
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    1 month ago

    I’m a chemist, and I’ve been gifted beaker tea-glasses and water glasses. They have been made for drinking, have never even been close to a lab, and yet drinking from a beaker makes me actually physically nauseous. It’s 100% psychosomatic, I know it’s fine, but my instincts scream at me not to do this, and I actually become nauseous when I drink water from a beaker.

    So it’s pretty easy not to


  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyznuclear
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    1 month ago

    There’s a really simple answer to the waste problem though. And it’s super, blatantly obvious.

    All nuclear material is basically ground up rocks that we dug out of a hole and then filtered the spicy bits out of. So grind it back up, pour it into concrete and stuff it back down the same hole it came from. Of course, you can’t legally do that, but that’s only because we have a ton of rules what constitutes safe disposal, etc. Recreating the original conditions basically meant you’re (re)creating something unsafe, but we do that in a LOT of places.

    EDIT: For example there are regions in Belgium and the Netherlands where there is so much naturally occuring arsenic in the ground, that if you scoop a bucket full of dirt, walk 50 meters across the provincial border and put pour it out, you’re comitting (at least) three different crimes. That’s legally valid, after all, the bucket contains polluted material, but practically nonsense since you literally just picked it up, and it’s been like that long before people ever got there.