Originally Posted by Schroeder (Post 2333924)

Even after decades of searching we haven't found a safe place for the stuff yet in Germany. The problem with holes in some mountains is that they tend to run full of water here. We've placed some radioactive waste in a former potassium mine called Asse and now we've got the problem that water runs into it and corrodes all the barrels that contain that stuff. Now we've probably got to retrieve those barrels (which were dumped with the intention to be irretrievable....) and that will cost billions.:/\\!!
Oh and the project was supposed to prove that those mines are safe to store radioactive waste for 30.000years....it actually lasted roughly 30 years before the problems appeared.:/\\!!

Originally Posted by Admiral Halsey (Post 2333868)

Just build more nuke plants. With the latest generation of reactors IIRC a single fuel load can keep the running for 50+ years. Waste admittedly would still be a problem but I say do what we should've done and shoved it deep, way deep, like go to the tallest mountain and drill to the very bottom of it deep in the Rockies. Do that and the stuff would never get out.