"bob haller" wrote in message
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launch into sun, or moon or even deep space. a launch boost accident
could spread radiation over a wide area............

yucca mountain and all sorts of burial..... over geological lifetime a
earthquake or volcanoe could erupt spreading radiation over a wide
area. this got yucca mountain mothballed. plus over generations future
people might drill or dig into the area by accident. 300 years from
now who is to know....


You imagine that somehow magically people would forget there is waste buried
there ?
And if a volcano appeared in that area, the presence of nuclear waste would
be a MINOR problem, all things considered.


glass globes of waste core pools in ocean... a big wave could uncover
them putting people at risk. our oceans shouldnt be landfills


With the ocean, the waste would be dropped at a subduction zone, where
things are folded back under the mantle
And any wave big enough to expose anything that deep would be a Tsunami big
enough to wash over the Himalayas

yucca mountain was designed to permanetely entomb tthe waste. i think
the waste should be moved to dry cask storage and kept underground in
a central facility with very high security. and not permanetely
entombed. keep it secure but recoverable

the current waste core pools arent in hardened containment and a great
terrorist target. plus they are spread all over the country including
even some closed plants. some pools are elevated, now that design was
dumb.

the risk of doing nothing but put it off is a accident or intential
event someday with very bad results

A great deal of the "waste" could be reprocessed and reused before being
total waste