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Personally, I think Yucca mountain is a great place to store it in the USA but that will likely never be politically viable. And I'm not sure what solutions exi
by reaperman 3y ago
Personally, I think Yucca mountain is a great place to store it in the USA but that will likely never be politically viable. And I'm not sure what solutions exist for nations outside of North America.
I'm also personally still concerned about transportation accidents resulting in permanently contaminated areas.
- acidburnNSA 3y agoOutside the US, Finland's Onkalo repository is on track to be the first operational commercial repository [1]. We have some operating military ones, like WIPP already. [1] https://www.posiva.fi/en/index.html https://www.posiva.fi/en/index.html As for transportation, this has been a big concern for some time but has pretty rock-solid technical solutions [2]. We regularly ship high-level nuclear waste around (e.g. from nuclear submarines to Hanford) and haven't really had any incidents. I'd claim that the issue is basically solved with these robust containers. [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?vW=hlextDSoVkQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?vW=hlextDSoVkQ
- eru 3y agoFor comparison, we have chemicals like mercury (and much worse) that stay dangerous forever, and we mostly handle them just fine. There's only a tiny amount of high level nuclear waste.