Nuclear waste: bury it and forget?

Question

What do you think we should do with nuclear waste

Answer 1

1 reprocess it
2.) Store/Immobilize the High level waste from reprocessing
in a product like Syn-Rock. Waste is cast into glass shapes such as cylinders which can be stored under ground in bore holes

http://www.pmc.gov.au/umpner/submissions/41_sub_umpner.pdf (See Page 7)

Answer 2

Launching it into space is very expensive and even a greater threat because if the rocket explodes we will have a large scale nuclear contamination spread over greater area.

The best thing is to bury it in a safe secret place and guard it until technology improves and space travel becomes very common and cheaper. Then we can get rid of it and send it in outer space...

Answer 3

In New Mexico they put the wast in a very deep salt mine which has been stable for a very long time. The salt slowly crepes back in around it and there is where it will stay.

Answer 4

This is just my opinion:
1. Re-process most of it
2. With remainder, build an underground facility like the one in Sweden


Good info can be found on www.nuclearinfo.net

Answer 5

My answer may be that it must be buried whilst the fabric loses its radioactivity and stabilizes into safer components. This technique of degradation can take everywhere from years to centuries counting on what isotopes are recent.

Answer 6

I think that we should dump it in space so that it cannot be damaging to the earth.