> But where can you find such a place? It's not hard. > In Germany people believed to found such a place in an old salt mine, now they have to get the stuff b

> But where can you find such a place? It's not hard. > In Germany people believed to found such a place in an old salt mine, now they have to get the stuff back before the mine is completely flooded with water and will contaminate the area around it We're talking about the Asse II mine? Yes, back in the 60s and 70s a research project was run to see if a salt mine would be a good place to store waste. In turns out it really, really, isn't because (spoilers!) salt mines aren't stable. Which is something we now know (and honestly could probably have figured out back then) which is why nobody is proposing on storing waste in salt mines any more. And it's not completely flooded, and it isn't contaminating the area around it. It's in danger of collapsing, and now the waste needs to be moved somewhere else, yes., but it's not like it's hard to find stable locations; the issue with Asse II is they picked one that isn't stable. > You need to store is from 100,000 to a million years That's simply not a relevant concern.