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[-] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 months ago

We do have one in Germany. While we are searching for suitable long term storage, the barrels are rusting away in salt mines.

[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 3 months ago

Okay i have to search about this, why the hell the barrels are in salt mines tho? 😭

[-] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago

Salt is plastic and over time will completely engulf the waste.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They just dumped them there in the 60s and 70s before there was regulation...

Edit:
Here's two links, if you want to read up on it:

English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine
Most official source you will find (German): https://www.bge.de/de/asse/themenschwerpunkt-radioaktive-abfaelle/
(Mind that a translator will like translate the name of the mine "Asse" as "Aces".)

[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah now that make more sense

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