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> The facility is incredibly safe. That's such a ridiculous claim. One hundred thousand years, mate. Absolutely ridiculous!
by MrYellowP 5y ago
> The facility is incredibly safe.
That's such a ridiculous claim.
One hundred thousand years, mate.
Absolutely ridiculous!
- ch4s3 5y agoThat's how long it would take for all of the material to fall below a very low threshold. Most of the actually dangerous stuff decays on the order of a few decades. The site is super remote, gets almost no rain, and is geologically stable. The casks are designed to be leak free for greater than 10k years, and even then they'd just drop some material onto a cement surface in the center of a mountain in a room sealed behind steel and concrete. The standards in place ensure that no detectable radiation from the site could possible ever enter water int he valley for more than 10k years and probably longer. At which point anything that leaked would be noise against the background radiation, and would be harmless even if you consumed it. You'd get more radiation standing in Denver than drinking that water.