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Posted on 03/06/2015 5:23:26 AM PST by thackney
...Deep_Borehole_Disposal and is pretty easy for some nuclear waste. Especially some highly radioactive materials that have sat in some fairly small capsules for almost 40 years.
...topic of discussion in Washington this week when Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz answered questions from Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) at a House Science, Space and Technology committee hearing.
The answer from Moniz was positive. He discussed a pilot project that would demonstrate the idea of deep borehole disposal using these capsules.
Deep borehole disposal is simple. Drill a very deep hole – 3 miles or so – put the waste in it and fill it up with some special layers, but mainly crushed rock and cement. As geologists, we know how many millions of years it takes for anything to get up from that depth in the Earth’s crust.
As long as you don’t put it under an active volcano!
The nice thing about deep borehole disposal is that it doesn’t matter where you put it in the country. At that depth, you’re so deep in the crust that the overlying rocks don’t matter. The water table doesn’t matter. The climate doesn’t matter. Human activities don’t matter.
But why these capsules? Because the material, cesium-137 and strontium-90 chloride salts (137CsCl and 90SrCl2), is in an easy waste form compared to that sludgy gooey stuff that makes up most of the tank waste left over from weapons production. These capsules are dry solid material in relatively small containers – less than 3-inches in diameter and only 2-feet long – very small compared to the large spent fuel assemblies and high-level waste glass logs usually discussed in geologic disposal plans....
...1,936 capsules filled with radioactive 137CsCl and 90SrCl2 that are stored underwater at the Waste Encapsulation Storage Facility at DOE’s Hanford site in Washington State....
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Can’t have everything but at least it’s on DVD. The remaining Cannon and Barnaby Jones would be nice to see.
QM was a favorite since people were actually introduced up front. What was funny sometimes was a special guest star with no real anything for credits or recognizable. Maybe an inside joke? I wished I had asked Lee Merriweather when she was at DragonCon years back. It was great just to say hello and talk for a minute at the table.
I’m guessing he’s a Prince fan and does a lot of partying, or did so at the time.
A large Prince concert, I’m guessing, with with Purple rain on the Party in 1999.
That is insulting. Not everyone is a fan of British TV Science Fiction from 4 decades ago. To claim our lack of that specific knowledge means we don't use our minds is pathetic.
Personally, I’ve always thought just shooting it off into the sun was a good idea. Granted, you don’t want to be around if something goes wrong with the launch, but...
Trouble is that volcano plumes move across the Earth’s surface and new ones form all the time, while long-dormant ones become active.
"I didn't come here to be insulted!"
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Thanks for your great contributions to the discussion.
God Bless
Here next to the Hanford Reservation they had the BWIP (basalt waste isolation project) that at the time was in competition against Yucca Mtn. They were essentially doing the deep bore hole testing but cancelled the project after they discovered an ancient fault line and the potential that if there ever was an earthquake it may have caused problems with the Columbia River.
Now their claiming the same thing at Yucca but no rivers are at risk.
Yes. Nothing like staying on-topic in a thread to make a “great contribution” to it.
I just accept take “Bump the Thread again” over nothing at all.
Cheers!
Can’t they keep reprocessing it until it is mostly inert?
Martin Landau remains unimpressed!
The Newmanium?
One could make the same arguments for fraccing depths.
The US does not allow reprocessing of nuclear fuel.
It should and other countries do.
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