▲ 2206 ▼ Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance (www.theguardian.com) submitted 2 years ago by sv1sjp@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world 1121 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] blazera@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Not into underground storage for tens of thousands of years permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Shurimal@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) That's precisely where they go—landfills. They're made of non-recyclable glass fiber-plastic composites that won't degrade for millions of years. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] blazera@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Landfills arent underground, and theyll break down within a millenia. Well the plastic anyway. Then youre left with recyclable glass if it isnt crushed into sand first permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Shurimal@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago Landfills not being underground is even worse (but normally they are buried under soil when they go unused). While the plastics degrade mechanically, being reduced into small particles, chemically they are not. They just turn into microplastics which I'm sure you're aware is a huge problem. With the small amount of ultimate nuclear waste that cannot be reprocessed further, the solution is simple: drill a km deep shaft into the bedrock, place them at the bottom, fill the shaft with rubble and cement. Done. No-one's going to accidentally dig them up and they pose absolutely no threat to anyone. The finns are doing something like this as we speak. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Shurimal@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) That's precisely where they go—landfills. They're made of non-recyclable glass fiber-plastic composites that won't degrade for millions of years. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] blazera@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Landfills arent underground, and theyll break down within a millenia. Well the plastic anyway. Then youre left with recyclable glass if it isnt crushed into sand first permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Shurimal@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago Landfills not being underground is even worse (but normally they are buried under soil when they go unused). While the plastics degrade mechanically, being reduced into small particles, chemically they are not. They just turn into microplastics which I'm sure you're aware is a huge problem. With the small amount of ultimate nuclear waste that cannot be reprocessed further, the solution is simple: drill a km deep shaft into the bedrock, place them at the bottom, fill the shaft with rubble and cement. Done. No-one's going to accidentally dig them up and they pose absolutely no threat to anyone. The finns are doing something like this as we speak. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] blazera@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Landfills arent underground, and theyll break down within a millenia. Well the plastic anyway. Then youre left with recyclable glass if it isnt crushed into sand first permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Shurimal@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago Landfills not being underground is even worse (but normally they are buried under soil when they go unused). While the plastics degrade mechanically, being reduced into small particles, chemically they are not. They just turn into microplastics which I'm sure you're aware is a huge problem. With the small amount of ultimate nuclear waste that cannot be reprocessed further, the solution is simple: drill a km deep shaft into the bedrock, place them at the bottom, fill the shaft with rubble and cement. Done. No-one's going to accidentally dig them up and they pose absolutely no threat to anyone. The finns are doing something like this as we speak. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Shurimal@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago Landfills not being underground is even worse (but normally they are buried under soil when they go unused). While the plastics degrade mechanically, being reduced into small particles, chemically they are not. They just turn into microplastics which I'm sure you're aware is a huge problem. With the small amount of ultimate nuclear waste that cannot be reprocessed further, the solution is simple: drill a km deep shaft into the bedrock, place them at the bottom, fill the shaft with rubble and cement. Done. No-one's going to accidentally dig them up and they pose absolutely no threat to anyone. The finns are doing something like this as we speak. permalink fedilink source parent