We were "WIPPed".
There is something to be said about having seemingly calm, normalized conversations with public relations employees about a topic as completely insane as transuranic nuclear waste. Especially when it is being stored in something as incredible as a 250 million year old salt bed formation. Spans of time such as 10,000 years come up in such conversations, since this is the amount of time they (the DOE) project forward in their planning. But the waste will exist much longer. Whether it will stay "entombed" by the salt is anyone's guess.
salt from the 250 million year old Permian sea (this is what the transuranic waste is stored in)
Images from the WIPP Experience
the routes that waste travels in the United States
a sample storage container used for transporting waste across the country
You've got to be bloody kidding me.
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