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Since the fuel will be encased in copper, and copper is quite valuable, I see a future, some centuries or millenia from now, where people will try to steal it,

by mongol 3y ago

Since the fuel will be encased in copper, and copper is quite valuable, I see a future, some centuries or millenia from now, where people will try to steal it, without realizing the dangers associated. With bad side effects as consequence.

credit_guy 3y ago
And how exactly will they know where to steal it from? Are they going to start digging random holes through bedrock just because they might hit treasure?
- 36364949thrw 3y ago
  I plan on passing the location down to my descendents. Each generation is to warn the next to not disclose the location, and to be patient as this is a long term plan. In a thousands years or so my clan will start digging at the exact location. They will venerate me and build temples to my memory.
- mongol 3y ago
  It may not be hard at all. Knowledge may be preserved because civilization has preserved it in books and/or memory.
voidfunc 3y ago
Eh, assumes copper will be valuable in that time frame. Unknowable.
tedunangst 3y ago
So a few copper thieves get radiation poisoning? How bad is that, really? It seems like all nuclear waste doomerism is based on the same assumption that at some point in the future all of humanity is reduced to 100 individuals and all of them decide to dig into the same mine shaft.
- justsomehnguy 3y ago
  > How bad is that, really? They wouldn't die outright, see Goiânia accident. But honestly, if the future mankind would lose it knowledge about such place and it's dangers and would get a lesson... then it would get a lesson.
- mongol 3y ago
  It is not an argument to not do it. But it is an argument that it is not only geological forces the storage must contend with.
WalterBright 3y ago
Millenia? The radiation would have half-lifed away.
Moldoteck 3y ago
You are looking too far, we just need more reprocessing plants like France have so we could recycle the waste and reuse about 95% of material back as fuel

by mongol 3y ago

credit_guy 3y ago

And how exactly will they know where to steal it from? Are they going to start digging random holes through bedrock just because they might hit treasure?

36364949thrw 3y ago
I plan on passing the location down to my descendents. Each generation is to warn the next to not disclose the location, and to be patient as this is a long term plan. In a thousands years or so my clan will start digging at the exact location. They will venerate me and build temples to my memory.
mongol 3y ago
It may not be hard at all. Knowledge may be preserved because civilization has preserved it in books and/or memory.

voidfunc 3y ago

Eh, assumes copper will be valuable in that time frame. Unknowable.

tedunangst 3y ago

So a few copper thieves get radiation poisoning? How bad is that, really? It seems like all nuclear waste doomerism is based on the same assumption that at some point in the future all of humanity is reduced to 100 individuals and all of them decide to dig into the same mine shaft.

justsomehnguy 3y ago
> How bad is that, really? They wouldn't die outright, see Goiânia accident. But honestly, if the future mankind would lose it knowledge about such place and it's dangers and would get a lesson... then it would get a lesson.
mongol 3y ago
It is not an argument to not do it. But it is an argument that it is not only geological forces the storage must contend with.

WalterBright 3y ago

Millenia? The radiation would have half-lifed away.

Moldoteck 3y ago

You are looking too far, we just need more reprocessing plants like France have so we could recycle the waste and reuse about 95% of material back as fuel