I have been a scientist in the field of the earth and environmental sciences for 33 years specializing in geologic disposal of nuclear waste energy related research planetary surface processes. It has entrusted andra the french national radioactive waste management agency with the task of assessing the feasibility of deep geological disposal of this waste a solution also considered by various. The french waste act dated 30th december 1991 initiated a research programme to define methods for the long term management of this waste.
A proposal to make nevada s yucca mountain the site of a national. Since that time deep geological disposal has replaced shallow trenches as our preferred nuclear waste storage technique. 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. I have become obsessed with long term nuclear waste disposal warnings look at the hostile architecture proposed to warn future civilizations i m going to cry like this is the closest thing we re ever gonna have to old gods i m really losing my mind here s something fascinating that i heard on either radio or a podcast a while back about the.
To be safe it must be isolated from all living organisms for at least 100 000 years. What s more the industry has so far generated nearly 300 000 tonnes of high level nuclear waste and counting. 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.
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.
