Comment on Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel

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• TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  500m is the industry standard depth for deep geological repositories for nuclear waste

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  • rando895@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But is that enough? I rarely trust industry standards.

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• BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s way more than is needed to block any radiation.

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  • obolstitelkisok@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What about archeologists of a distant future?

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Start turning the words to don’t change colour kitty

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    • satans_methpipe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think that’s still being debated or decided it refined. Warnings or signage need to be interpreted correctly in 80,000 years.

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      • TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Google hostile architecture for nuclear waste sites.

        It’s better than a skull and crossbones in my opinion

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• Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, really the only thing that’s gonna expose them is plate tectonics. Just to give a sense of scale, America and Europe are diverging by 4 cm/yr, so will be 500 metres farther from each other, horizontally, in about 10,000 years. Geologically stable regions (called cratons) would not experience such motion vertically for much, much, much longer.

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