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I think it's unreasonable to expect any solution to work for 100k years. Too many unknown unknowns. But hopefully if it does fail in say a few hundred years the
by im3w1l 5y ago
I think it's unreasonable to expect any solution to work for 100k years. Too many unknown unknowns. But hopefully if it does fail in say a few hundred years the radioactivity will already be less and they will be better equipped to clean it up.
- willis936 5y ago100k is still on the order of engineerable problems if you do proper risk assessment. I don't think any reasonable solution expects avoiding failures, but rather is fail-safe. I'm not even sure if you call them failures if they are part of the expected lifecycle.
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoThe bedrock at the Finnish nuclear waste storage site was estimated by geologists to have not moved an inch in four and a half billion years. I'd bet every penny on it standing for another hundred thousand.