Gorm wrote:Nuclear waste are never ever dumped on a landfill. Not even in the USA I guess.
Really... Hmmm check out the HUGE nuclear waste land fill at Barnwell, SC. There is another in Hanford Washington. I used to haul nuclear waste and I have been to both of them.
FWIW Even Sweden has nuclear waste dumps somewhere. Your uranium fluoride gas is stored ( at your expense) in stainless steel containers at Sargents Ohio. It is so corrosive the containers are pumped out into NEW containers on a regular schedule while science tries to find a safe way to dispose of or recycle that gas.
There was an experimental Fluoride gas recycling plant built back in the early 70s in Morris Ill. we spent over a year hauling the building, machinery and even the first 20 feet of foundation dirt to the dump in Barnwell, SC after a leak contaminated the place in 1977.
The dumps all over the world are run by a company called Chem-nuclear. The trucks hauling the waste used to belong to Home Transportation Company of Marietta Ga while Jimmie was president, now those same cannister trailers are hauled by Chem-Nuclear trucks or by Tri-state motor transport. There are long term costs of nuclear energy that have yet to be factored in. The dump at Barnwell was supposed to have room for another 100 years, but had to be doubled in size 3 years ago as it was full.
Imagine thousands of acres of land with placards saying do not allow human occupation or digging before the year 5000.