Large Area Near Japanese Reactors to Be No-Go Zone for Decades
Broad areas around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant could soon be declared uninhabitable, perhaps for decades, after a government survey found radioactive contamination that far exceeded safe levels, several major media outlets said Monday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/world/asia/22japan.html?_r=1
Dead Zone
Hey,
Why doesn't the Japanese government just store the waste in the dead zone instead of burning it !
Friggin impossible for them to figure this out ??
I thought of a few funny
I thought of a few funny replies when I first read your post but as I thought about it I realized you have an excellent idea. Land storage!! Just have to consider some things like rain run-off to make it work.
However, we all know that great thinking and government actions are incompatible.
Salt mines
In New Mexico they are storing the waste in deep salt mines, there is a theory that eventually the salt encapsulates and seals up the waste, this happens deep underground, and prevents it from hitting the water table.
This would be a better option than burning the waste. I don't like nuclear period. But this is just a better way to deal with the waste we already have. Here is the link. Of course the cheapest way to burn it and spread it all around.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126229739
Part of the article paste:
For 11 years, the federal government has been burying nuclear waste in New Mexican salt beds at a place called WIPP, or the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. It's waste from making atomic weapons.
But now the government is looking for a place to put thousands of tons of spent fuel from reactors. These salt beds could be the place. New Mexicans, however, are faced with the prospect of becoming the nation's default nuclear waste dump.
Salt mines
What I meant by my post to store it deep underground encapsulated in salt, on the radioactive land that is already a dead zone vs. burning the waste and sending it around the planet.