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Also Finland has for the most part solved our nuclear waste problem.

A couple km down the road from Olkiluoto is Onkalo which is basically ready with now going through final checkups and to be put into use in 2023.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...



Yup. The risk factor there is that humans might go extinct and then aliens visit Earth in 20k years and decide to start digging.


Yeah the risks are really low. Basically you would have to dig down there for any risk. The risk simulations they did for it are hilarious to read

This is the worst case scenario they thought about

> Posiva on arvioinut ydinjätteiden pahimpia mahdollisia seurauksia. Skenaariossa ydinkanisteri syöpyisi puhki tuhannessa vuodessa lasketun sadantuhannen vuoden sijaan ja samanaikaisesti sitä ympäröivä savipuskuri katoaisi selittämättömästi. Lisäksi pohjavesi kulkisikin ylöspäin ja paikan päälle rakennettaisiin kaupunki. Ihminen, joka eläisi kehdosta hautaan saastuneimmalla neliömetrillä ja söisi vain sillä kasvanutta ruokaa ja joisi saastuneinta vettä, saisi vain kolminkertaisen säteilyannoksen Tampereen Pispalassa nyt asuviin ihmisiin nähden.

Rough translation

> Posivat has estimated the worst case scenarios. In the case the vessels would corrode in 1000 years instead of the calculated 100000 years and the clay barrier would "disappear" (nobody knows how it would do that) and the ground water would move upwards (it moves down in that area) and someone built a city above it and ate from crops grown on the worst possible radiated land they would get 3x the lifetime radiation does of someone living in Piispala, Tampere

(the stuff in quotes is my additions)


Hahaha, hilarious indeed!




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