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Nuclear waste is largely a solved problem. The digs in Yucca mountain and in Finland can accommodate nuclear waste with a very high degree of safety. The propos
by manfredo 8y ago
Nuclear waste is largely a solved problem. The digs in Yucca mountain and in Finland can accommodate nuclear waste with a very high degree of safety. The proposed failure modes for these plans are incredibly far fetched: what if people in the future lose knowledge of the buried waste, decide to dig a mile down in a remote location with no natural resources, uncover the waste caskets, don't heed the warnings because all knowledge of 21st century languages are lost, and never figure out that the stuff in these concrete blocks is poisoning them? Sure, this possibility exists, but it's up there with meteor strikes in terms of how useful it is to try and mitigate it
- natmaka 8y agoThose digs may or may not accommodate nuclear waste with a very high degree of safety. What's sure is that nobody will be really responsible if (when?) the sh*t hits the fan, especially because some waste may kill or maim in the distant future (thousands years), or in stealth mode (polluting a phreatic zone). When the Chernobyl plant was under construction a soviet newspaper claimed that "it will be so safe it could be built on the Red Square". When the disaster happened, the author of this claim was nowhere to be found.