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2024-04-02 Science & Technology

Finland to Bury Nuclear Waste for 100,000 Years

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#1 Finland school shooting [by 12y/o] leaves multiple wounded, suspect arrested

Posted by Skidmark 2024-04-02 09:24|| 2024-04-02 09:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Yucca Mountain remains in limbo for reasons that defy logic, but not EPA concerns about the 10,000 year radiation dosage levels...
"One point of concern has been the standard of radiation emission in 10,000 to 1,000,000 years. On August 9, 2005, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a limit of 350 millirem per year for that period.[49] In October 2007, the DOE issued a draft of the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement showing that for the first 10,000 years mean public dose would be 0.24 mrem/year and that thereafter the median public dose would be 0.98 mrem/year, both of which are substantially below the proposed EPA limit. For comparison, a hip X-ray results in a dose around 83 mrem and a CT head or chest scan results in around 1,110 mrem.[50] Annually, in the United States, an individual's dose from background radiation is about 350 mrem, though some places get more than twice that.[51][52]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-04-02 13:20|| 2024-04-02 13:20|| Front Page Top

#3 As I recall from my time in NV [82-95], the trains that would haul the East Coast waste go through a number of political cities: St. Louis, KC, Vegas, etc. Apparently some hesitancy for rail transport and then offloading mobile containers for rough road transport. For some reason using the test cavities at the National Test Site in Mercury NV was/is also a nono.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-04-02 17:23|| 2024-04-02 17:23|| Front Page Top

#4 DoE made almost impregnable cars for transport. Spillage should not be a problem.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-04-02 20:27|| 2024-04-02 20:27|| Front Page Top

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