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    1 year ago

    What do you mean hasn’t been solved? Nuclear waste is being processed and stored constantly and with high safety. Not to mention reprocessing which could be done if not for being outlawed.

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      1 year ago

      The only permanent storage for high level waste is currently being built in Finland, if I’m not mistaken. Germany thought they had found one, but they have to retrieve all waste because of leaks. Back to square one.

      All we have up to now is temporary surface storage.

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        1 year ago

        There is deep salt vein storage here in the us actively being used as we speak.

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        The pyramids weren’t buried 1km under the surface in flowing salt which will further engulf the waste for geologic time scales.

        Also we didn’t forget about the pyramids. What does that even mean? People have lived right next to them since they were built.

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            1 year ago

            Yes there are archaeological sites which have been forgotten and rediscovered.

            Nothing you’re saying is a strong argument about self sealing deep storage waste burial sites. I don’t think you realize just how little waste nuclear reactors produce, they’re not pyramids, they’re a few barrels across years.

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                I’m well aware of the hazards communication projects. Not really relevant to deep salt storage.

                Thousands of years is nothing across geologic time scales.

                Yeah 11 tons is literally nothing. That’s only 575 m^3 of uranium.

                That’s a third by mass of the average single German households trash production across the same time period. And it’s more dense, so less volume.

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                    Ah. Even so, that’s less than the trash output of 1000 citizens. The quantity of waste is not very worrisome to me at all, especially considering all the other possible hazardous wastes from other industrial processes.