The Nuclear Waste Problem

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Nuclear reactor footage courtesy Canada Science and Technology Museum
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[chillingpaully]

"The form of the danger is an emanation of energy. The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place." I cannot think of a better way to peak someone's curiosity.

[Longbonglongdong]

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Radioactive Uranium Rods

[erisi]

honestly that message sounds like some kind of amazing weapon is buried there if I was a warlord or something I might want to dig for it

[rhobidderskag]

"If you open this, everyone gets sick and dies." That's better than that mysterious interesting shit they wrote.

[gmodrules]

"I've got it, to prevent future civilizations from getting curious, we should build massive stone monoliths carved with hieroglyphics that detail a cryptic danger buried beneath. Surely nobody would ever try to figure out what the horrible thing buried here is".

[shmadmanuts]

-What's it saying, blob?
-Danger, Death, Radiation, Useless, Heavy.
-Blob, what is it really?
-Barely used nuclear fuel, for free! Just what we need for the Beta Fusion Reactor mark XVI...

[fajaradi]

Thousand years later ... Some random tomb raider think he/she found an ancient artifact. Read the warning, and say :

Look at these religious superstitious bloke. They think they can scare us with a nonsense mythical curse.

[itsjustdom]

As somebody who works in nuclear, and specifically in spent fuel storage, I can assure that a number of things stated are false or misleading. For one, dry cask storage systems (the concrete steel cylinders) have various different designs that take natural disasters based on area into account. In California, at sites like San Onofre and Diablo Canyon, the casks each have their own individual slot 20' deep inside of a seismic safe concrete pad; this design is called a UMAX. On the east coast US, you don't have to worry about earthquakes or tsunamis of course. Two... No government or company in their right mind would leave an underground mausoleum unguarded; that bunch about the Finnish site is a complete lie, or at least would not apply in the US; happy to see it's being memed.

[martinpenwald]

Wendover: "the only way to secure this place is to let it be forgotten"
Also Wendover: tells me about this place

[ohyeah]

Clicked on this expecting to learn about nuclear energy, left questioning my existence

[Pwndbythnb]

Just name the site Flint Michigan and I'm pretty sure any government will forget about it if not ignore it.

[whatdoiputhere]

Just create a secret society dedicated around protecting the future from the past

[ErnestJay]

Future human reading "dangerous message" be like :

" *THIS MUST BE WHERE THE TREASURES BURIED !* "

[doggo]

That warning just sounds too much like the Ancient Egyptian warnings which we completely ignored.

[ateebtahir]

"The form of danger is emanation of energy. The danger is unleashed only if you disturb this place"
there are no better words than this to make them more curious.😂😂😅😅. In every sci-fi movie they type the exact same words near a super-powerful material like vibranium.

[bryanturnbow]

From what I can observe, it looks like containing the nuclear waste would at least be easier than pulling a bunch of carbon dioxide out of the air.

[mashucha]

"Forbidden blocks"
Wow I really want to open it up now

[kuntahouen]

7:55 If that message was in a video game I would dig that up in no time.

[jeremyw]

7:55 Wow that message TOTALLY won't just make them more curious

[spencer]

Between 2008 and 2017 there were over 1500 deaths resulting from oil extraction. The argument against nuclear power being safety issue is not a good one…