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Originally Posted by robocop
drill a hole a few thousand feet deep on the tip of a subducting tectonic plate that is in the middle of nowhere and it will disappear in a few million years. Biggest danger being superheated or pressurized nuclear waste exploding, can it? I don't know.
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Like, say, near Carlsbad, New Mexico?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_I...on_Pilot_Plant
I'm touring this place on April 15th as part of the ANS conference on High Level Radioactive Waste Management.
To your question, there are EXTREMELY strict guidelines on the waste forms that get put into WIPP. These guidelines take into account generation of pressure and the like.