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IMHO it would be better to store nuclear waste in well guarded sheds. There isn’t that much of it (less than a million tons; a few football fields worth of shed
by jl6 5y ago
IMHO it would be better to store nuclear waste in well guarded sheds. There isn’t that much of it (less than a million tons; a few football fields worth of sheds), and accessible above-ground storage means you can easily monitor it and maintain its container over time. Who knows what will happen 5km down, out of sight?
- thecopy 5y agoRelying on society is too risky. Drop them in a bore hole, fill it up again. Done.
- jl6 5y agoI do worry about bad guys digging it back up again. The search for waste storage that lasts forever feels like the search for data storage that last forever. In the latter case, no storage medium is reliable enough in the long run, and the better strategy is continuous active management, moving from one storage medium to another as technology evolves and as old media expire.
- throwaway894345 5y agoA bad guy that can dig a 5km hole can probably just as easily refine his own Uranium or steal someone else’s. If you really want, secure the hole like you would secure whatever above-ground facility you would otherwise store it in.