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There are multiple teams and projects using spent nuclear fuel to power new types of much smaller power plants, and even portable power boxes and space tech. Th
by dzink 5y ago
There are multiple teams and projects using spent nuclear fuel to power new types of much smaller power plants, and even portable power boxes and space tech. Those storage facilities may start being a lucrative resource soon.
- datavirtue 5y agoExactly. I have room in my back yard.
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- tephra 5y agoThe medium term storage might but the long term storage sections will be sealed and I don't think it would be cost effective (or super possible) to actually unseal it. The copper capsules will be buried 500m in the bedrock, the capsules will then be placed inside a hole which will later be covered by bentonite clay. As the sections fill up that will also be filled with clay.