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> How about showing me a sound final (100k yr) storage for nuclear waste, built and ready, before you operate any more nuclear reactors? Bury it in bedrock wit
by manfredo 6y ago
> How about showing me a sound final (100k yr) storage for nuclear waste, built and ready, before you operate any more nuclear reactors?
Bury it in bedrock with no aquifer. The only scenarios where this results in waste being exposed are borderline hyperbolic: somehow society collapses, all knowledge of radiation is lost, and some future civilization decides to dig up a waste disposal site. The US already built one of these, but then the government killed the project for political reasons [1]. Europe is building a facility in Finland [2].
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repository https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...