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I like this idea, my own outlandish suggestion has been to just drop it off at a subducting ocean trench and let it return to the mantle. It's only slightly mor
by mpyne 11y ago
I like this idea, my own outlandish suggestion has been to just drop it off at a subducting ocean trench and let it return to the mantle. It's only slightly more feasible though, and getting the casks to stay intact until they're deep enough would be a difficult engineering challenge.
- NickNameNick 11y agoI always liked the idea of vitrifying the radioactive waste before putting it in barrels and putting the barrels into the subduction zones. With the hazardous material rendered into chemically inert glass beads it should stay put even if (when) the containers are breached. I'm not sure how practical that is. I presume the radioactive decay will break down the chemical structure of the glass, which will limit the ultimate effective lifetime of the solution