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Ross Bradley wrote in message <957754941.595999@server.tarms.com>...
>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
>:-).
>

problem is the different siotopes and elements that are present in nuclear
waste, BTW Pu is one of the shorter lived fission byproducts, there are
also the water solulable bioaccumulative waste products to deal with, dump
and forget is not an option for nuclear fission wastes, the only safe and
sane option is monitored storage in purpose built storage facilitys.


>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.


now that is a bit better an option, althoug hte subduction rate is rather
slow, it would take many lifetimes for dumped materials to be safely
subducted under a continental crust. i still favour monitored storage.


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>Ross.
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>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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