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Re:No One Knows What to Do with Fukushima’s Endless Tanks of... by icanhackit on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @10:09PM (#9689645)
Could you create robust, modular storage vats that double as interlocking elements of a sea-wall to hold back future tsunamis? I imagine it'd be expensive but you're killing a few birds with one stone. If containment in a single vat fails then the radioactive water is dispersed in a vast sea as opposed to a small land area.

I also wonder if you could blast pellets of radioactive waste with a very big laser like the one at the NIF [0]. I don't know much about physics so I accept this could be a disastrous or futile idea but if anyone can comment that would be great.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility

Re:No One Knows What to Do with Fukushima’s Endless Tanks of... by tdy721 on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @10:41PM (#9689769)
The NIF is not the answer here. I suspect that the facility will only "Blast" a few grams or kilograms of material in its lifetime, we need to deal with TONS of water.
Re:No One Knows What to Do with Fukushima’s Endless Tanks of... by Nogwater on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @10:15PM (#9689674)
Sounds like a really expensive way to make radioactive steam. :)