Long time nuclear waste warning messages

Re:Long time nuclear waste warning messages by nukd235 on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:21PM (#20621138)

There's an opposite line of logic to the disposal of nuclear waste that projects such as these don't seriously consider:

Bury it in such a way that any hypothetical future primitive neo-civilisation can't detect it and can't dig it up - for better or for worse.

Instead of drawing attention to the dump of strange rocks that make neolithic humans sick, why not make it so unobtrusive that any enterprising future miners don't discover the waste dump in the first place?

We have the technology to survey geological formations for exploitable minerals. Why not instead survey for both the lack of exploitable minerals AND a long-term stable environment, then bury the small volume of high-reactivity waste that we've produced so far in a tiny shaft with a tortuous access route?

It's a lot easier to get humans to ignore something for 10,000 years than to make them pay attention to a warning sign.

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Re:Long time nuclear waste warning messages by saluki on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:25PM (#20621164)

"tortuous access route"

There has to be treasure down here look at the ways they are trying to prevent us from finding it. We've got to dig this up. - future me

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Re:Long time nuclear waste warning messages by number6 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:44AM (#20622778)

Just bury it deep and seal the doors. If they have the tools to open it up or dig it out they should be able handle it.

Also why do all these people think a) that we are around in 10.000 years or b) we are tribal people at this point?

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Re:Long time nuclear waste warning messages by jobigoud on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:56AM (#20644587)

If we aren't around there is no problem. If we are around and have continued historical records of the waste dump areas there is no problem. The core problem is if we are still around but there has been a big disruption in technology and bookkeeping.

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Re:Long time nuclear waste warning messages by number6 on Friday August 09, 2019 @06:25AM (#20652957)

Sounds like we need a distributed Ledger, a Chain of Blocks do to speak. Like Stone Hedge.

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Re:Long time nuclear waste warning messages by ZeKZ on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:26AM (#20624168)

If you have a facility there to dig and store the materials, it will run for decades and will be documented and archived somewhere. Someone will eventually find out about it.

Watch "Into Eternity", it talks a lot about that. The plan for Onkalo (Finland) is to use both : the caves will be sealed and hidden, but they will also place warnings inside.

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