I've never understood what all the fuss was. Why don't they just put it back where it came from? For those unfamiliar with the topic and easily embarrassed by making mistakes, what could be simpler that checking out the World Nuclear Association information library? I know I did:
https://www.world-nuclear.org/inform...-overview.aspx
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Most of the uranium ore deposits at present supporting these mines have average grades in excess of 0.10% of uranium – that is, greater than 1000 parts per million. In the first phase of uranium mining to the 1960s, this would have been seen as a respectable grade, but today some Canadian mines have huge amounts of ore up to 20% U average grade.
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With yields of between ⅒% and 20% we find a median value of 10ą⁄₂₀% but according to the WNA library report, 20% yields are recent discoveries so the majority of nuclear waste came from the bottom end of the range maybe ⅑% which seems a little austere so I'll use ⅐% instead. Whatever the figure though, there must be a massive hole where the ore used to be and a large pile of dirt. Simply mix the waste with the dirt and put it back in the hole! For every 1,000 tons of uranium and/or its waste products at ⅐% there'd be 700,000 tons of dirt available to dilute the radioactives down to what they were when mined.
Surely a schoolchild (with a calculator) could work that out? And there's a whole department? With deputies and assistant deputies and secretaries to the deputies and assistant deputies and from what I gather assistant secretaries to the secretaries to the assistant deputies and actual deputies? One outcome of excessive administration is pariah ships. They load them up with radiation or poison and set sail. When they arrive somewhere, the cargo is assessed and the port does not have any facilities for it. Therefore the ship cannot dock so off it goes to another port. No port has administrative clearance for the stuff, whatever it is, so eventually the ship sinks.
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