🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi,

A similar idea, but use a former uranium mine as the repository.  Bind the
waste into a glass/ceramic base (e.g.. Synrock (sp?)) and inter it at the ex
mine.  If it is diluted enough with the binding agent then the waste could
actually be less radioactive than the extracted ore, i.e. the dump would
actually reduce the amount of radiation in the environment.  Also if
plutonium (half life 24,000 years?) and replaced the U238 (half life 4.3
billion years?) then you could argue that the site would be safer sooner
:-).

How fast to sub-sea subduction zones (if that is the correct term) move.
i.e. drum of waste was buried where one part of the crust moves under
another part a few km underwater, how long would it take the waste to move
under the crust.  For that matter, aren't most sub-sea oil wells stable? If
they weren't stable for a geological age then the oil would leak out.

Ross.

TJ <tjlim@telpacific.com.au> wrote in message
news:39162523@news.rivernet.com.au...
> There is so much land that is totally uninhabitable in Australia. Why
cannot
> we allocate these sections to house these nuclear waste for sizeble cost.
We
> sell these spaces and ensure that stringent standards are imposed for
> dumping such waste here. There are lots of revenue from overseas to be
> earned here.
> <none (Quarks like a duck)> wrote in message
> news:8f2n6g$61p$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net...
> > That is old thinking here in the US. Volunteer communities get
> > educated too quickly on the industry's inabilty to solve the waste
> > problem. I watched many low-level waste communities volunteer and then
> > reject the idea soon after.
> >
> >
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