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Re:Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety ... by gambiting on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:14AM (#24373200)
Sure, but that's why I suggested deep borehole storage - there is no known geological process that can bring up material stored at 5km+ depth into the surface on any sort of human timescale. A mine, even at 700m depth, is just too shallow for long term storage.
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Re:Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety ... by Krasnol on Friday September 04, 2020 @12:05PM (#24376191)
But there are many human processes which can.
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Re:Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety ... by gambiting on Friday September 04, 2020 @03:03PM (#24377889)
....and? If you wanted highly dangerous materials to use for some evil purposes it's 1000x easier to just manufacture some poison rather than dig 5km deep. I'd argue that making radioactive isotopes in an accelerator is still easier than digging. Not sure what your concern is here.
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