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Outside 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 a
by acidburnNSA 3y ago
Outside 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.