Sunday, October 30, 2022

Re: How Radioactive Nuclear Waste is stored




8:00 Spent nuclear fuel rods, after a year of cooling, are encased in cast iron, then a thick copper cylinder, then bentonite clay (to prevent intrusion of corroding water during seismic movement) then buried 500m underground in suitably stable bedrock. 

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