Comment by bryanlarsen
2 days ago
Those locations have a large grid connection, which is valuable enough to pay for the decomissioning / cleanup costs so something else can use the connection.
Heck, there are companies cleaning up coal plants to use the connection for solar or wind, and that's a lot more expensive than cleaning up an old solar plant.
Solar panels are not degradable and are piling up in toxic landfills as are windmill blades.
Solar panels are made of exactly the stuff needed to make solar panels.
The ability to recycle solar panels will only get better with time.
Nuclear waste is not biodegradable either...
I'm not pro nuclear, but FWiW:
There are bioremedition techniques used to treat contaminated sites, just as there are similar techniques for toxic metals contamination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioremediation_of_radioactive_...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266676572...
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