The E wrote:TFLYTSNBN wrote:Because of the wet climate, Germany is a lousy location for "long term" (1,000 years) waste storage. Outsource it.
Okay, so noone you were calling stupid in the first post of this thread was actually being stupid then, good to know.
The entire premiss of my original post was that I expected the Germans to be more intelligent than Americans on this issue. Since it was an American news outlet, I didn't dismiss the possibility that it was just an ignorant American reporter having a feces fit over something that the Germans had already figured out.
Actually, the leaching rate from vitrified fission products is so low that you could just stack the wastes out in the rain with minimal risk. Ground water is mildly more problematic. If you insist on deep geological disposal, Germany isn't a good place for it.
My suggestion of outsourcing is just an idea to evade the political problems. Ship your radioactive wastes off to some Arab countries that have lots of dry desert, then hope that they don't fabricate it into "dirty bombs" to send back to you.
Of course my favorite suggestion is rather than build a deep underground nuclear waste repository, just fabricate nuclear waste suppositories.
