Sweden started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel on Wednesday, only the second such site in the world, where highly radioactive waste will be stored for 100,000 years.
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What SCP containment site is that?
I think that is awesome, but the thumbnail image is totally giving T-Virus vibes.
Had to look it up myself.
The T-Virus from the Resident Evil series:
Also The Hive, just being huge and underground:
Can we store nazis in there instead?
Thats where you get mutated nazis. According to some
gamesstudies I did, that’s a bad idea
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[…] will consist of 60 km of tunnels buried 500 metres down in 1.9 billion year old bedrock.
Are 500 meters deep enough?
500m is the industry standard depth for deep geological repositories for nuclear waste
But is that enough? I rarely trust industry standards.
It’s way more than is needed to block any radiation.
What about archeologists of a distant future?
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I think that’s still being debated or decided or refined. Warnings or signage need to be interpreted correctly in 80,000 years.
Google hostile architecture for nuclear waste sites.
It’s better than a skull and crossbones in my opinion
I mean, really the only thing that’s gonna expose them is plate tectonics. Just to give a sense of scale, America and Europe are diverging by 4 cm/yr, so will be 500 metres farther from each other, horizontally, in about 10,000 years. Geologically stable regions (called cratons) would not experience such motion vertically for much, much, much longer.
And yet I keep hearing from nuclear fans that there’s nothing to worry about and that it’s safe. And how is this cheaper than renewable. That place has to be maintained and secured for 100,000 years.
If we put that onto our timeline, we were just getting out of Africa and using stone tools.
That’s not the sort of gift we should be leaving our descendents. Okay we have to deal with what we have, but we shouldn’t be making any more of the stuff. Because there will be an accident somewhen down the line.
The whole point of doing it this way is that it doesn’t need to be maintained. Once it’s full you just fill the tunnels up (probably with dirt and/or rock) and close them off and you’re good, it’ll sit there for those 100,000 years.
No security or monitoring? No warnings about digging or mining?
And yet it’s still better than destroying the global environment.
