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How do you quantify and then accept the risk of said casks being hit and made to catch fire by a kinetic object?
by redwood 10y ago
How do you quantify and then accept the risk of said casks being hit and made to catch fire by a kinetic object?
- philipkglass 10y agoThe casks are too thick to be penetrated by civilian firearms. They could be further protected from man-portable weapons (e.g. anti-tank guided missiles) by locating them shallowly underground, where monitoring/maintenance is still easy. Military attack on the storage site with heavy weapons? That's approximately equal to the case of a military attack on a live power reactor, with the same dire consequences and responses. (If a shooting war has escalated to war crimes against nuclear powers, I expect that MAD is just around the corner.)
- edblarney 10y agoIt's not flammable. And properly processed, even a leakage in the containment wouldn't necessarily be disastrous, i.e. requires cleanup, but no like chernobyl problems. I wish we would put more research into this. Imagine if we could make nuclear waste relatively benign? It would revolutionize the entire world.