Nuclear waste on the Lincolnshire coast

Looks like Nuclear waste from all over the UK could be dumped on the Lincolnshire coast.
A Government agency has identified the former gas terminal at Theddlethorpe as a potential new dumping site.

The waste would be stored deep underground, up to 1,000 metres, to allow the radioactivity to diminish. The process itself could take 1,000 years or more.

I saw this on Look North. When the reporter said 1000 years to dissolve/disintegrate etc. it all became very scary.

I'm pretty sure he said 100,000 years.

I wonder if Town will have a new stadium by then...

Quoted from fishyfanny

I'm pretty sure he said 100,000 years.

I wonder if Town will have a new stadium by then...

And the fans will still be harping on about how badly the club was run under Fenty  

Bury it under the pitch. We wouldn’t need undersoil heating or weedkiller ever again.

Quoted from promotion plaice

And the fans will still be harping on about how badly the club was run under Fenty  

Who!

That’s a bit of a shocker.

Ooh.  My old man used to work at that place - and that was my first summer job working in the offices there.  This is not exactly out of the way - it is just a few hundred metres along the beach from the dunes etc......  

quote my own post "This is not exactly out of the way -"   - probably is for a lot of people in the UK.  

Quoted from Yossarian

quote my own post "This is not exactly out of the way -"   - probably is for a lot of people in the UK.  

Not for me.

I don't know how I'm going to sleep at night with that green glow just down the road. I loved the way they waited until I've got less than a year left on the mortgage before they reduced the price of my house to just slightly less than the price of a shed on Nunny, without a lock.

Hmmm. Nothing unsafe about the proposition, providing it is carried out correctly. Far below the water table so no way of contamination finding its way to the surface - again, if it is carried out correctly. 100,000 years is a blink of an eye in geological terms and, as it is apparently a geologically stable area (well over 1,000 miles to the nearest tectonic plate boundary), the radiation would have decayed to background levels long before there was any chance of any of the material finding its way to the surface.

The caveat is that the plan really requires a properly designed, built, implemented and operated storage facility. Not much experience of building such facilities around the world, though a lot are under construction in various places.

Assuming it is high level nuclear waste (eg. fuel rods and other stuff out reactors), we'd be much better off reprocessing and using the uranics in a suitable Gen IV reactor to produce more power. This could also reduce the volume of the most dangerous parts of the waste and reduce the length of time it remained dangerous manyfold.

Everything is safe until it goes wrong. Corners cut, wrong materials to save on price, tick a box to say job done because you want to get off shift early, compromise to meet other issues.

When I lived in Scunny once, an extremely safe, we were told, chemical plant called Nypro exploded. Devastation in the area and extremely toxic gases travelling in the wind, villages evacuated and listening to the police radio they were considering evacuating Hull because of the gas. Locally there have been problems at the refineries over the years, all deemed to be SAFE.

I'm not a nimby and won't be here in a few years time (more than a few I hope) but if anything went wrong those living at that time wouldn't be much longer. Also now it's been made official what is going to happen to the property prices?