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> I think we can safety assume people in 100k years aren’t going to randomly stumble upon the elephants foot. I think that's a big assumption. Historically, h

> I think we can safety assume people in 100k years aren’t going to randomly stumble upon the elephants foot. I think that's a big assumption. Historically, humans are interested in exploring abandoned and forbidden sites and go out of their way to do so. > part of the new safe confinement project is to “facilitate the disassembly and decommissioning of the reactor.” I've seen zero concrete plans or funding for this. And seeing as how the site is currently in the middle of a war zone, and has been hit by explosive drones[1], I think it's safe to say that things aren't going to plan. 1: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/chernobyl-protective-shelter-damaged-by-drone https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/chernobyl-protec...

Retric 1y ago
> Historically, humans are interested in exploring abandoned and forbidden sites and go out of their way to do so. The waste is still going to be around in some form, just not in a huge lump someone can walk up to. > zero concrete plans or funding 3,000 people where working on site, so they had funding for the process and while slow quite a bit of visible progress had occurred. “The cranes have so far removed the roof of the reactor's engine room.” https://www.rferl.org/a/inside-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-conferment-shelter-photo/29583945.html https://www.rferl.org/a/inside-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant... The final storage of all of Ukraine’s high level nuclear waste is unclear, but that’s a common issue in the industry. Getting this high level waste safely offsite and in dry cask storage is a reasonable goal at this point. The drone strike has been repaired, but ultimately wars don’t last forever. On the scale of a 100+ year projects it’s a temporary issue. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/chernobyl-emergency-work-completed-to-put-out-fires-in-shelter https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/chernobyl-emerge...

Retric 1y ago

> Historically, humans are interested in exploring abandoned and forbidden sites and go out of their way to do so. The waste is still going to be around in some form, just not in a huge lump someone can walk up to. > zero concrete plans or funding 3,000 people where working on site, so they had funding for the process and while slow quite a bit of visible progress had occurred. “The cranes have so far removed the roof of the reactor's engine room.” https://www.rferl.org/a/inside-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-conferment-shelter-photo/29583945.html https://www.rferl.org/a/inside-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant... The final storage of all of Ukraine’s high level nuclear waste is unclear, but that’s a common issue in the industry. Getting this high level waste safely offsite and in dry cask storage is a reasonable goal at this point. The drone strike has been repaired, but ultimately wars don’t last forever. On the scale of a 100+ year projects it’s a temporary issue. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/chernobyl-emergency-work-completed-to-put-out-fires-in-shelter https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/chernobyl-emerge...