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    • Umbrias@beehaw.org
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      11 months ago

      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.

        • Umbrias@beehaw.org
          41·
          11 months 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.

            • Umbrias@beehaw.org
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              11 months ago

              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.

                • Umbrias@beehaw.org
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                  11 months ago

                  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.