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minus-squareanton@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 month agoWe do have one in Germany. While we are searching for suitable long term storage, the barrels are rusting away in salt mines.
minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoOkay i have to search about this, why the hell the barrels are in salt mines tho? 😭
minus-squaretruthfultemporarily@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoSalt is plastic and over time will completely engulf the waste.
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 month agoThey just dumped them there in the 60s and 70s before there was regulation… Edit: Here’s two links, if you want to read up on it: English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine Most official source you will find (German): https://www.bge.de/de/asse/themenschwerpunkt-radioaktive-abfaelle/ (Mind that a translator will like translate the name of the mine “Asse” as “Aces”.)
We do have one in Germany. While we are searching for suitable long term storage, the barrels are rusting away in salt mines.
Okay i have to search about this, why the hell the barrels are in salt mines tho? 😭
Salt is plastic and over time will completely engulf the waste.
They just dumped them there in the 60s and 70s before there was regulation…
Edit:
Here’s two links, if you want to read up on it:
(Mind that a translator will like translate the name of the mine “Asse” as “Aces”.)
Yeah now that make more sense