Hello, yes wind and solar also both produce waste—old wind turbines and solar panels have to be disposed of. AFAIK, solar involves the handling of hazardous toxic waste to produce the panels—this is why solar has higher death rates per kwh than nuclear, on some studies. Solar and wind are very energy diffuse which means they involve large amounts of hardware; nuclear is energy dense so involves much less land use and waste.
On your second point, we deal quite easily with nuclear waste with current technology, so I don’t think this argument works. It will be even easier to deal with in the future presumably, and there isn’t very much of it, in the grand scheme of hazardous waste
Hello, yes wind and solar also both produce waste—old wind turbines and solar panels have to be disposed of. AFAIK, solar involves the handling of hazardous toxic waste to produce the panels—this is why solar has higher death rates per kwh than nuclear, on some studies. Solar and wind are very energy diffuse which means they involve large amounts of hardware; nuclear is energy dense so involves much less land use and waste.
See this paper on wind turbine blade waste—https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956053X17300491
On your second point, we deal quite easily with nuclear waste with current technology, so I don’t think this argument works. It will be even easier to deal with in the future presumably, and there isn’t very much of it, in the grand scheme of hazardous waste