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Good luck to them. In Germany the national storage facility had nuclear waste stored in it for a decade or so and it “unexpectedly” started leaking and resurfac
by ricw 5y ago
Good luck to them. In Germany the national storage facility had nuclear waste stored in it for a decade or so and it “unexpectedly” started leaking and resurfacing. The project was subsequently abandoned about a decade ago and all existing waste had to be dug out again.
Mark me as skeptic as to whether this is feasible. 100k years is all marketing in any case and can’t realistically be designed for.
- layer8 5y agoThe notion of a permanent repository for nuclear waste always seemed misguided to me. There are too many uncertainties and unknown unknowns even in the relative short term. It’s like assuming a piece of software is "finished", no new bugs will ever be found and no new requirements will ever come up. I believe it would make more sense to treat the waste as something that will have to be maintained over its lifetime, and changes to the storage will have to be expected, anticipated and accommodated over time.
- _ink_ 5y agoThey haven't dug it out, though. The waste is still in that cave where ground water enters. They think that they are ready to start the recovery in 10 (!) years. The estimated cost to prepare the recovery are above 4 billion Euro.