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Just out of curiousity, if that was basically the "initial plan" for Yucca mountain, what did the plan eventually become?
by justaguyonline 10y ago
Just out of curiousity, if that was basically the "initial plan" for Yucca mountain, what did the plan eventually become?
- ChuckMcM 10y agoWell the current current plan is do nothing as far as I can tell. But the original vitrification plan was replaced with a casking plan which allowed the material to be removed (and recovered). The sad thing is that you don't need a lot of 'high security' around a cave filled with vitrified nuclear waste, you can't use the glass for anything useful. But you do if your cave is filled with casks that can be opened and the contents removed and then aggregated into piles, or wrapped around a truck bomb to be distributed by detonating the now 'dirty' bomb.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoIt's a damn shame the US won't proceed with the vitrification method; there is ample quantity of glass containing lead from CRTs sitting in warehouses waiting to be recycled (that is not economically feasible to be recycled, so it sits in warehouses) that would be perfect for the vitrification process.
- Animats 10y agoNow that's a good idea. Are there still stockpiles of leaded glass?
- toomuchtodo 10y agohttp://boingboing.net/2017/02/17/millions-of-lead-filled-crts-h.html http://boingboing.net/2017/02/17/millions-of-lead-filled-crt...