• lolcatnip
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    7 months ago

    Right now almost 100% of waste is stored on site above ground because they really have no good solution.

    You mean there’s so little they don’t even need a dedicated facility for it, and it’s safe enough that people are willing to work where it’s stored? Sounds great!

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      7 months ago

      Combustion engine sounded great too before the entire world started using them everywhere. You trust corporate interest to store this material for hundreds if not potentially thousands of years.

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        7 months ago

        I trust the material to just sit there like big slabs of concrete usually do.

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          7 months ago

          But it isn’t concrete. It needs constant maintenance and inspection. The casks need to be monitored and rotated out when they begin to erode and break down. Whose doing that for 1009 years?