Comment by throwaway7356
11 hours ago
> Decomissionning is a made-up issue: no other industrial activity is expected to return clean nature after they stopped operating,
That is factually wrong. Coal mining has to re-naturalize the areas used for mining after the coal was removed.
And most industries are supposed to not just leave toxic waste and instead have a plan what to do with toxic waste products these days. And no, an empty building cannot be compared to radioactive waste.
You throw the radioactive waste in a breeder reactor and make more fuel out of it. It's really not that hard.
They consider the concrete around the plant's parking lot to be nuclear waste though (I'm not kidding, that's how the French regulations works).