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The risk is not through digging, it's through geological processes happening over 100 k years that break up the storage site.
by periheli0n 5y ago
The risk is not through digging, it's through geological processes happening over 100 k years that break up the storage site.
- Manuel_D 5y agoAnd in the event of a container breach, how does uranium make it through hundreds of meters of rock to get back onto the surface? And if the waste is in a subduction zone, those geological processes are brining the waste deeper into the ground. People seem to be under the impression that even one gram of waste escaping is going to cause irreparable harm. Do people not realize that we've detonated hundreds of nuclear warheads in the atmosphere (and many more underground)? Do people not realize that the UK and Soviet Union simply dumped their nuclear waste into the ocean [1]? Yet we're worried about waste buried deep into bedrock? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactive_waste#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactive_...