The waste isolation pilot plant the intermediate level repository dug into the salt beds of new mexico is intended to receive 800 000 55 gallon soft steel drums of military origin trans uranium waste holding among other substances the radioactive shavings from u s. At this rate the reserves underlying wpp will be drained of hydrocarbons long before. Warning humans of nuclear waste.
The senate is trying to pass new laws on nuclear waste disposal based. However as npr reported a radioactive leak at the wipp in 2014 suggests this is easier said than done. Build containers for nuclear waste that could outlast the toxicity bury them in a remote place and the case would be closed.
At first it seemed an engineering challenge par excellence. Thus the waste isolation pilot plant wipp was conceived. Even if no better method of disposal is found for nuclear waste in the next 10 000 years there is plenty of time to continue to research effective and long term warning methods for nuclear radiation dangers.
This kind of storage facility requires active. Currently nuclear waste is stored above ground or near the surface but within the industry this is not considered an acceptable long term solution. Many long term waste management options have been investigated worldwide which seek to provide publicly acceptable safe and environmentally sound solutions to the management of intermediate level waste and high level radioactive waste.
Most low level radioactive waste is typically sent to land based disposal immediately following its packaging. The actinides in nuclear waste can be burned in breeder reactors and indeed some have calculated that america has enough nuclear waste to run her for 1000 years without mining any more uranium. Why try and store nuclear waste when in fact it is only radioactive for so long because it is unused energy.
A 1993 report from sandia national laboratories recommended that any such message should. Nuclear semiotics is an interdisciplinary field of research first done by the human interference task force in 1981. Long time nuclear waste warning messages are intended to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future within or above the order of magnitude of 10 000 years.
