Geologic Storage CANNOT POSSIBLY Solve The High-Level Radioactive Waste Problem . . . . . . unless there is a complete phase-out of nuclear power
The human race has never successfully disposed of ANYTHING!
A note on the arithmetic. The 90-percent figure used in this presentation is easily confirmed. Imagine a one-kilogram sample of irradiated nuclear fuel taken at the end of every month. (This simplistic scenario is just for ease of calculation.) AECL [Atomic Energy of Canada Limited] has published figures on the radioactivity of irradiated CANDU fuel, measured in curies per kilogram, as a function of its “time-out-of-the-reactor”. The total radioactivity of 120 kilograms of CANDU irradiated fuel, sampled at the rate of one kilogram per month over a period of 10 years, is found by adding up the radioactivity of all the samples. It turns out to be about 269,000 curies. If we do the same calculation for 480 kilograms of irradiated CANDU fuel, discharged at the rate of 1 kilogram per month over a period of 40 years, the total radioactivity is about 290,000 curies. We note that 269,000 curies is almost 93 percent of 290,000 curies. Thus the 90 percent figure used in this presentation is conservative.
