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NIMBY for waste storage? You'd expect Canada to be one of the countries where that's the least of the issues, what with having infinite land in the north.
Try convincing any remote community, native or otherwise, that you're building a nuclear waste facility. And if not near enough a community, then you're looking at having to build out an entirely new community and infrastructure to supply it.
There's been some attempts -- research storage facilities like the one in Pinawa, MB, but they've all been shut down.
For sure I understand it's more tricky than just going out in the woods making a big pit and calling it a day (though the image I had in my mind was pretty close to that if I'm being honest). Just feels like there's plenty of space far enough from anyone's backyard but you make a good point about having to then supply that site.
Made me question where France was putting theirs and it's in l'Aube, rural area but definitely not empty by any means. Except for the real nasty stuff that's being temporarily kept by the producers on-site until they apparently plan to bury them in a deep geological argile formation (projet cigΓ©o).
On site deep geological disposal is possible using boreholes. There's a Kyle Hill video touching on it.
Above ground storage is in dry casks, is it not? Hardly that nasty. I guess if it is in pools, out might arguably be nasty.
What I meant is the stuff they want to geologically bury are the very radioactive parts that are 0.2% of the volume but 95%+ of the radioactivity, that's all.
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