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This is mostly notable as an option because: A) It's cheaper than building a Yucca Mountain B) It can be built faster than Yucca Mountain, enabling it to actu
by Accujack 7y ago
This is mostly notable as an option because:
A) It's cheaper than building a Yucca Mountain
B) It can be built faster than Yucca Mountain, enabling it to actually be finished before it can be defunded or protested out of existence.
Most power generating reactors don't generate much waste relatively speaking... the bulk of the waste that exists is from nuclear weapons. So there's a need for waste disposal, but it's not as bad a problem as many people seem to think.
On top of that, newer reactor designs produce less waste, so in the future there may be even less of a need.
- GhettoMaestro 7y ago> It can be built faster than Yucca Mountain, enabling it to actually be finished before it can be defunded or protested out of existence. This should not be touted as a feature. This is a surefire way to create local population blowback and most likely ruin any goodwill you may have been able to leverage.
- cr0sh 7y ago> enabling it to actually be finished before it can be defunded or protested out of existence. Except, both of these things have already occurred: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_borehole_disposal#American_deep_borehole_disposal_tests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_borehole_disposal#America...
- Accujack 7y agoNonetheless, they still have the potential to be an easier to implement disposal solution because they're faster/cheaper to create than a massive project. I expect it'll still be necessary to put the hole somewhere there aren't hundreds of people protesting oil pipelines, but that's a topic for the future.
- 8bitsrule 7y agoI heard of a place waaaaaay out in the woods - very few people lived in the area - near the Canadian Shield. One day some some Unidentifed People with serious machinery started drilling a hole. After several days, they went home for the weekend. When they came back, the hole had been filled in. This re-occured a couple more times. The UP never returned.
- Accujack 7y agoWell, then. You need to dig it out and report what you find.