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The objective of the New Safe Confinement is to shelter the site and allow for safe demolition of the structure and disposal of the material on the site. There
by throwawayboise 6y ago
The objective of the New Safe Confinement is to shelter the site and allow for safe demolition of the structure and disposal of the material on the site. There will probably be some sort of "cap" over the site for a long time but it will not need to be as expensive or technically sophisticated once that work is done.
- barkingcat 6y agoI'm considering the "safe demolition and disposal" to cost multiple orders of what it would cost to rebuild the containment ... so yes, at some point the new containment cap need not be as expensive, but by the time we have gotten to that point, the site will probably have consumed a lot more money than just building the same containment over and over again. Some future leader(s) would probably do the calculations and just say "let's build another 100-year-containment so the next generation can deal with the disposal" and pocket the money. It's the "tech debt" discussion embodied in real life.