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Originally Posted by ASWnut101
It interests me that so many people don't know about Deep Borehole Disposal. You basically just dig a 3-4 km deep hole, dump about 1km worth of high level waste into it, then fill the hole back up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_borehole_disposal
I'd say definitely the most promising method of disposal. 3-4 km deep holes makes any potential recovery extremely difficult, and the amount of space between the surface and the waste level is so great that peak irradiation of the surface should any material leak out would occur millions (movement of about 200m/1Ma) of years later, and be many times below the natural background rate.
We do have a realistic solution for nuclear waste disposal. The only reason we aren't using it is because some people think we may have a use for all that crap in the future. Sounds to me that they're just hedging their bets. |
Sweet - I learned something new today. Thanks for this - I did NOT know of this until today.
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