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> That we dumped so much crap into the ocean a little more won’t hurt? Something I found out recently was that the city of Brussels discharged raw sewage into

> That we dumped so much crap into the ocean a little more won’t hurt? Something I found out recently was that the city of Brussels discharged raw sewage into the rivers until 2007. This from a wealthy city at the heart of the European project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Belgium#Case_study:Wastewater_treatment_in_Brussels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in... Radioactive waste disposal is seldom paired with a cost-benefit analysis. Perhaps this is because the benefits are harder to quantify. Does anyone know how many lives will be saved by spending an estimated 4.7B EUR to commence retrieval of the low and intermediate level waste from the Asse II mine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine 4.7B EUR could provide humanitarian aid to many around the world, saving lives and enabling yet more to more fully reach their potential.

belorn 2y ago
Everyone has consistently treated mining waste as an unavoidable side effect of mining, which only economical solution is to dig a whole in the ground and put it there. The only minimum standard that get enforced is that the waste should not leak into the ground water.
- chickenbig 2y ago
  > The only minimum standard that get enforced is that the waste should not leak into the ground water. In the case of the Asse II mine it is not clear how strongly connected the water at the mine is to water at the surface. Given it is a salt mine I would not expect a strong connection. > Everyone has consistently treated mining waste as an unavoidable side effect of mining Yes, there are better and worse ways to dispose of it. Tailings are a huge problem and have caused many a dam disaster. Plainly Difficult Youtube channel dam disasters makes for sobering viewing. https://www.youtube.com/@PlainlyDifficult/playlists https://www.youtube.com/@PlainlyDifficult/playlists

belorn 2y ago

Everyone has consistently treated mining waste as an unavoidable side effect of mining, which only economical solution is to dig a whole in the ground and put it there. The only minimum standard that get enforced is that the waste should not leak into the ground water.

chickenbig 2y ago
> The only minimum standard that get enforced is that the waste should not leak into the ground water. In the case of the Asse II mine it is not clear how strongly connected the water at the mine is to water at the surface. Given it is a salt mine I would not expect a strong connection. > Everyone has consistently treated mining waste as an unavoidable side effect of mining Yes, there are better and worse ways to dispose of it. Tailings are a huge problem and have caused many a dam disaster. Plainly Difficult Youtube channel dam disasters makes for sobering viewing. https://www.youtube.com/@PlainlyDifficult/playlists https://www.youtube.com/@PlainlyDifficult/playlists