{"id":50150,"date":"2019-12-16T12:11:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T17:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50150"},"modified":"2019-12-16T12:11:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T17:11:54","slug":"nuclear-waste-disposal-drilled-deep-into-earths-crust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50150","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear waste disposal drilled deep into earth\u2019s crust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2019\/nuclear-waste-disposal-in-boreholes-drilled-into-earths-crust\/\">Nuclear waste disposal drilled deep into earth\u2019s crust<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/energyskeptic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/frack-hole-drilling.jpg?resize=436%2C309\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is frack-hole-drilling.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Preface. I suspect one the greatest tragedies of the decline of oil will be all the nuclear waste left for thousands of low-tech generations in the future. We owe it to them to clean up our mess while we still have excess oil energy to do it.&nbsp; But far more likely nuclear wastewill sit at nuclear reactors, military sites, and wherever nuclear warheads are kept, shortening the lives of anyone who lives near them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two articles below about possible ways to dispose of nuclear waste into deep holes that sound good to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2013\/book-review-nuclear-waste-too-hot-to-touch\/\">Too Hot to Touch: The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste<\/a>&nbsp;by William M. Alley &amp; Rosemarie Alley. 2013. Cambridge University Press to understand how serious the problem is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vidal, J. 2019.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ensia.com\/features\/radioactive-nuclear-waste-disposal\/\">What should we do with nuclear waste<\/a>? Ensia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Muller, professor emeritus of physics at the University of California, Berkeley and his daughter, co-founder of company &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deepisolation.com\/\">Deep Isolation<\/a>&nbsp;gave a demonstration in January 2019 of how nuclear waste could be buried permanently using oil-fracking technology. A 140 pound steel canister (with no radioactive waste) was placed in a previously drilled borehole deep into the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this technique, there\u2019s no need to excavate expensive tunnels. The Mullers think with larger canisters pushed through 300 boreholes up to two miles deep under a billion tons of rock where radiation can\u2019t possibly leak out.&nbsp; This method could store most of the US\u2019s highest level nuclear waste permanently&nbsp; for a third of what storage methods cost now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many ideas have been investigated, but most have been rejected as impractical, too expensive or ecologically unacceptable. They include\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/archive\/nasa\/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov\/19780015628.pdf\">shooting it into space<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/synroc\">isolating it in synthetic rock<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.igsoc.org\/journal\/19\/81\/igs_journal_vol19_issue081_pg607-617.pdf\">burying it in ice sheets<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jul\/03\/runit-dome-pacific-radioactive-waste\">dumping it on the world\u2019s most isolated islands<\/a>; and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/dont-dispose-waste-in-ocean-trenches-1441116\">dropping it to the bottom of the world\u2019s deepest oceanic trenches<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear waste disposal drilled deep into earth\u2019s crust Preface. I suspect one the greatest tragedies of the decline of oil will be all the nuclear waste left for thousands of low-tech generations in the future. We owe it to them to clean up our mess while we still have excess oil energy to do it.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[11836,11859,579],"class_list":["post-50150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-alice-friedemann","tag-energy-skeptic","tag-nuclear-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50151,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50150\/revisions\/50151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}