• Olgratin_Magmatoe
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    10 months ago

    There is no guarantee of anything.

    But if you’re storing it hundreds of miles from the ocean, the risk is minimal.

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      10 months ago

      It isn’t really minimal since the water cycle on earth is all connected.

      Water in the ocean evaporates. It’s carries inland by Hadley cells that deposit the moisture inland. It gets dumped on the highest points which all run back the ocean and creating all our aquifers along the way. Those aquifers feed our great lakes and wells.

      But you’re suggesting we bury toxic material that remains toxic for hundreds or thousands of years somewhere remote that would just be high up in that water cycle. In places where private companies would be out of the eyes of watchdog groups

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        10 months ago

        that would just be high up in that water cycle. In places where private companies would be out of the eyes of watchdog groups

        That is not what I am suggesting.