Sandia Earth Sciences Nuclear Waste Management

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Current and retired Sandia employees recount the impact of the Labs’ Earth Sciences Nuclear Waste Management, which in its 50-year history has contributed to numerous repository and management programs.

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I was hoping to see some work on dealing with this 75 year old technical problem of radionuclide reclamation and disposal. After all these years all they have to show for it is a tale of Laurels for pushing through a politically unpopular idea and technical maleficence. I would have expected better from Engineers. No one it seems has dealt with the waste at all, just finding cheap, mayonnaise jars and a shelf to put them on leaving the soluble problem unaddressed.

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For the record, I thought Salt caverns was a bad idea when I was 12. Duh. Why didn't they figure that? That is some fine assed injunerring. Bassackwards way to handle Radio Wastes. Are they still proud of this legendary, bad idea? I guess they did get paid...

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A serious science with great scientists and engineers. Unfortunately, the application is slowed by too much emotion and politics. Hopefully this needed work will continue.

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Could we not just dump them into a pool of water and generate energy from them spent fuel rodes cuz they continue to decay releaseing some energy less then before maybe enough to substain a containment field by them self's?

lorenzoo
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It's only "waste" for political reasons. We could technically breed most of that into fuel. We have something like 70 years of our complete energy needs just sitting in cooling ponds. Now THAT, is wasteful.

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You can do what the UK did, and just dump it in the English Channel, they wont notice a few more barrels... lol

scarakus