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Originally Posted by mjohnson

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.

You guys need to start a separate thread for this sort of stuff, it's very interesting for us engineery/sciency minded folks that don't normally get much of a view into that world.