• Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
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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?