Watch how Finland plans to store uranium waste for 100,000 years
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- Опубліковано 3 бер 2022
- The saying “out of sight, out of mind” doesn’t quite hold true for radioactive materials. Proposed permanent storage facilities for nuclear waste have encountered pushback in countries like France, Sweden, and the United States-including the latter’s famously contested Yucca Mountain site in Nevada. However, Finland has succeeded in gaining approval for a long-term nuclear waste repository, which is set to open in a few years.
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This topic deserved more then 4 minutes
It can be seen that this is a civilized country, with huge priorities for future generations.
In my opinion, Finland and Iceland “do things the right way” more than other countries. I admire them. Much respect from philly
Cool piece, but a life-cycle analysis of nuclear energy -- in particular, mining, refinement, dismantling and waste disposal -- will never conclude that it is a "carbon-free source of energy." It strains credulity to make such a claim in a video showing a massive excavation.
:32 Woah, woah, woah! HEU (highly enriched uranium) is NOT used to make nuclear power. HEU is at least 20% enriched. Fuel grade is normally 5%. Weapons grade is 90% or above. Don't go throwing this around without know what you're talking about.
Nuclear energy is not carbon free. Massive amounts of fossil fuel used in mining ore and building reactors. Copper is not as corrosion-resistant as Finland hoped, causing the engineers to go back to the drawing board to find another containment system. Yucca was chosen because of NIMBY. Nevada has a smaller population to object than the other 5 sites under consideration. But it is riddled with fissures that allow water to freely flow into the center of the mountain. There is some debate over whether there are 256 technical shortcomings or 292 to make Yucca unsuitable. Besides Yucca's total capacity is 60,000 tons and the U.S. commercial reactors already have 85,000 tons on hand. When digging a hole to Hell, the first step would be to stop digging. The U.S. nukes generate 2000 tons/yr.
So many negative opinions. What I would like to know is how safely the other countries are handling their nuclear waste?
I hope it works as planned. Because no one who’s involved in building it will be around to see if it fails in 200 or 2000 or 20,000 years.
Making a 100,000 year plan is beyond capability of humans.
More anti-nuke propaganda. High-level nuclear "waste" is an asset, not a liability. It only needs to be stored for about 100 years as we utilize it for new energy production. This type of project just feeds into the false fears of nuclear energy. This is a really expensive, bad idea, as most politically driven, science absent decisions are.
Ill bet we'll be digging some of these back up to use in more advanced reactors in future.
Finally someone came up with a sollution
Finland has always been good with PR, which is what nuclear power and projects like these need.
I won't mind a video essay on this topic 🔥
What happened to those nuclear reactors that re use fission material and leave barely any radioactive waste with just half the half life?
Just think in 100,000 years everyone will have forgot about our time here and forget about where all this nuclear waste is being stored. Then someone uncovers it and opens the container to study it. 🎉🎉🎉😮
They plan to backfill and bury this one around 2120. Then presumably they will need another one?
Years 90s east europe send their nuclear waste to my Country Romania , burried near ciry of Constanța
a silly controversy caused by people who fear nuclear power.
Into the next ice age … like we have a chance lol