The right answer is high-security facilities out in the desert somewhere. Reprocess and recycle the nuclear waste to cook it down to a minimum, vitrify it, and store it there. A piece of vitrified waste about the size of a hockey puck represents the
Below is a picture of a vitrified waste storage facility in Britain. The "glass" is encased in stainless steel cylindrical canisters about 16 inches in diameter and about 4 feet long.
Each "disk" in this picture covers a silo that holds ten such canisters. A 1000 MW nuclear plant operating for a year produces the equivalent of about twelve canisters.
Balance this against the ash and CO2 emitted by a 1000 MW coal plant operating for a year.
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Keep it simple.
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- Yucca Mountain waste site off the table?
- Nuclear power is similar to war.
- There are atolls in the Pacific.
- Bali Hai is calling...follow me, follow me.
- Above ground is the safest.
- Not necessarily,
- Given your timeframe...
- Fission fusion hybrid, purebred bogosity.
- Given your timeframe...
- No NIMBY's on military restricted areas. (n/t)
- Not necessarily,
- Above ground is the safest.
- Keep it simple.
- Bali Hai is calling...follow me, follow me.
- No nuclear power?