{"id":55630,"date":"2020-11-15T06:48:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T11:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55630"},"modified":"2020-11-15T06:48:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T11:48:40","slug":"nuclear-waste-disposal-drilled-deep-into-earths-crust-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55630","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear waste disposal drilled deep into earth\u2019s crust"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Preface<\/strong>. One the greatest tragedies of the decline of oil will be all the nuclear waste left to harm future generations for up to a million years. We owe it to them to clean up our mess while we still have the fossil energy to do it, they won\u2019t be able to discard the waste with horses and biomass-based energy like the civilizations before fossils that we\u2019re returning to.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t do anything, nuclear waste will sit at\u00a0 reactors, military and nuclear warhead sites.<\/p>\n

The first of three articles below criticizes the deep borehole method of disposal that follow.\u00a0 I disagree.\u00a0 There are groups opposed to moving nuclear waste to a faraway site in case the train goes off the rails or there is a truck accident making it hard to use any repository anywhere.\u00a0 Drilling a borehole onsite gets around that.\u00a0 It is also much easier, faster, and far cheaper than new tunnel sites like Yucca mountain, which has cost $15 billion so far.\u00a0 Of course there are issues with boreholes, but no showstoppers.\u00a0 It is simply politically impossible to build large repositories. Nevada is one of the least populated states and it couldn\u2019t be done there.\u00a0 The perfect is the enemy of the good, so I vote boreholes.\u00a0 Equally good, reopen Yucca Mountain, which the book \u201cToo Hot to Touch: The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste\u201d shows is a perfectly fine place\u2013 thousands of combinations of scenarios of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, high rainfall, and other hazards have been modeled and nothing released the wastes below.<\/p>\n

Related:\u00a0posts on nuclear waste<\/a>, especially \u201cA Nuclear spent fuel fire at Peach Bottom in Pennsylvania could force 18 million people to evacuate\u201d<\/p>\n

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Krall, L. 2020.\u00a0Nuclear waste disposal: Why the case for deep boreholes is \u2026 full of holes<\/a>. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nuclear waste disposal drilled deep into earth\u2019s crust Preface. One the greatest tragedies of the decline of oil will be all the nuclear waste left to harm future generations for up to a million years. We owe it to them to clean up our mess while we still have the fossil energy to do it, […]<\/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":[4],"tags":[11836,11859,9429],"class_list":["post-55630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-alice-friedemann","tag-energy-skeptic","tag-nuclear-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55630","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=55630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55631,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55630\/revisions\/55631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}