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In Germany half is currently stored in an old salt mine which is at risk of water breaking in (in a region with seismic activity) ... the other half sits in bri

• Xylakant 13y ago
  Even worse - the risk is not water breaking in, since that's already happening. The risk is total collapse and contamination of the ground water: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine So now the plan is to retrieve all the waste and store it - this time better at an estimated cost of at least 4 - 6 billion Euro. The general problem I have with nuclear power is that it's all fine and dandy as long as everything goes as planned. If not, then everything goes boom in a big way. And where humans and profits are involved, plans tend not to involve all failure modes: The explosions in fukushima could have been avoided using catalytic recombinators which are for example mandatory in germany [1]. [1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaktorsicherheit#T.C3.B6pfer-Kerzen http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaktorsicherheit#T.C3.B6pfer-K... (sorry, german)