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If the waste is pulled into the mantle near a volcano, wouldn't that be a problem? Maybe no new volcanoes will form in 100k years.
by itake 5y ago
If the waste is pulled into the mantle near a volcano, wouldn't that be a problem? Maybe no new volcanoes will form in 100k years.
- varenc 5y agoMy understanding is that there’s such a vast amount of mantle and it’s generally a liquid so that after the waste “dissolves” in the mantle only a very tiny fraction of it would be brought back to the surface in future eruptions.
- smileysteve 5y agoUranium exists in nature, it's how we mine it; if nuclear waste is distributed around the mantel, it may be distributed in part via volcanos, but likely not in quantities like a nuclear test.