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Maybe you don't, but I would expect the people designing the sites know the half life of the materials they are storing. Plutonium-239 for example has a halflif
by qwytw 5y ago
Maybe you don't, but I would expect the people designing the sites know the half life of the materials they are storing. Plutonium-239 for example has a halflife of 24,000 years which is not that much in geological terms..
- Asmod4n 5y agoDo you honestly belive we can build something to keep radioactive and toxic stuff sealed for tenthousand years? By the time it's still bad for carbon based lifeforms it's as old as todays archaeology!
- qwytw 5y agoSure why not, the great pyramid is close to 5000 years old, I'm sure with modern knowledge humans can build something that will last much longer. In any case the damage it can do is fairly limited compared to burning coal.
- throwaway894345 5y agoIt doesn’t need to be perfectly safe to be the correct choice, it only needs to be safer than fossil fuels, which is really, really easy to achieve. We’re fussing over the absolute safest way to store it, but even managing it as we have been has proven to be far, far, far safer than fossil fuel.