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Originally Posted by devodave
No, Yucca is still a no starter. When I reviewed the proposed documentation that was to be for license application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commision, the underground emplacements were going to require over 75% of the worlds supply of titanium. Futures on that would have paid out big money!
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I recall the likely miles of Ti "roofing" for the tunnels - once they figured out that it couldn't be a "geologic" repository they figured that they could engineer their way around it. The costs would have been beyond astronomical. Truly just a warehouse with a few guards sitting on stools 24/7 for the next few thousand years would have been cheaper.
An interesting point of view was delivered years ago at the (2000?) Plutonium Futures conference in Los Alamos/Santa Fe. For some attendees (former USSR scientists) they had never been out of their country. A few 'mericans piped up to say that they should just bury their stuff in the interest of nonproliferation. Wow did that cause a scene! We got more than a few tirades in Russian and English of how much treasure was spent on that material and NFW are they just going to put it in the ground.