Start digging then
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Forester@yiffit.net 11 months agoIt just needs to be buried deep enough. Problem solved. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository
woelkchen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bashnagdul@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They often put it in the mine it came from. It was there long before and can stay there long after
woelkchen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They often put it in the mine it came from.
Good luck trying to convince Uranium mining countries to take it back.
Bashnagdul@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, Netherlands has a contract with France for exactly that…
HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
It wasn’t in the same form when it came out.
Bashnagdul@lemmy.world 11 months ago
True, but when encased properly, it leaks less radioactivity then when it was in raw ore form.
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Even better: reprocess the fuel. The linear fuel life time decommissions nuclear fuel as useless while it still has 90-something percent of energy potential left. Having a more cyclical life cycle allows for the spent fuel to be reconstituted into new fuel, and to be used anew. All the waste that does end up being produced is only a fraction of the waste produced in a linear process, and only dangerous on a societal timescale instead of a geological one.
HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
The places where that is done don’t have a great track record.
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m pretty sure France is one of those places and they have an amazing track record.