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Re:Radioactive water at Fukushima Daiichi: What should be do... by Animats on Friday June 28, 2019 @01:45PM (#20306908)
Right. So put it in an oil tanker, take it someplace with permafrost, pump it out, and let it freeze. A few parts of Hokkaido are cold enough. In a century, it will have decayed enough to be a non-problem.
Re:Radioactive water at Fukushima Daiichi: What should be do... by throwaway5752 on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:10PM (#20307193)
I don't think I'd want to bank on stable permafrost for a century. And one would probably want to put some care into site selection and construction as seismic hazards got us here to begin with. The residents of Hokkaido might reasonably not be warmly welcoming to this idea. I don't know enough about tritium impact to sublimation rates, but that would presumably be a problem. But point is taken about enclosed and chilled storage for 84-96 years.