alt Hacker NewsThis has to be snark - Waste is never safe to store - the containment has to prevent leeching - over a lifespan of thousand, or tens of thousands of years
And it only takes one earthquake, or animal digging to completely upend that strategy
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palata • yesterday at 9:19 PM
An earthquake will not suddenly take the waste from hundreds of meters underground and throw it in the air. I mean, assuming you store it in a reasonable place.
chpatrick • yesterday at 9:00 PM
Sure, you need the right place, but it's not like there's a shortage of space far away from everything.
noosphr • yesterday at 9:33 PM
And yet we had a natural nuclear reactor that's been self contained for 2 billion years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
What kind of animal is going to dig through concrete and steel and also be hundreds of meters underground in solid rock?