Source: Geoscientist - The magazine of the Geological Society of London

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Storage not disposal - GEOSCIENTIST

  2023-03-01 by in Geoscientist - The magazine of the Geological Society of London

Dear Editors, I read with interest Beswick and Gibb’s proposal for disposing of higher grade long-lived nuclear waste in deep c.5.0 km boreholes (Geoscientist 32(3), 10-11, 2022). I have no experience with nuclear waste, but I have over 40 years’ experience of drilling (onshore and offshore to 7.3 km) learning much about the subsurface behaviour of […]

  Tagged under: Nuclear Power

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Nuclear waste borehole safety - GEOSCIENTIST

  2022-09-20 by in Geoscientist - The magazine of the Geological Society of London

Dear Editors, In the autumn 2022 issue, Beswick and Gibb extolled the virtues of deep borehole disposal as an alternative to mined repositories for high-level nuclear waste disposal, asserting that: “geology in terms of isolation is only cosmetic.” The consensus is that geology is the ultimate barrier of the multibarrier containment system and that engineered […]

  Tagged under: Nuclear Power

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