• WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Where do you put the waste? For how long and at what cost?

    What about the cost of decommissioning nuclear sites at the end of their life?

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      5 months ago

      In the ground, very deep, forever, for not nearly as much money as you might think. It takes up very, very little space. It’s not green liquid that can spill, it’s pieces of glass.

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        5 months ago

        We did that in Germany, and it’s now contaminating groundwater, as the very deep hole is flooding with water.

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          4 months ago

          You put things around the glass so that groundwater never touches the ‘glass’. Again, very different now from the days we started.