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re: Louisiana seeking to store Nuclear Waste under the Gulf.

Posted on 7/30/26 at 9:16 am to
Posted by ELVIS U
Member since Feb 2007
11901 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 9:16 am to
Carbon capture on steriods
Posted by UtahCajun
Member since Jul 2021
6914 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 9:18 am to
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Am I also correct in thinking that nuclear waste never expires and never goes bad

Once radioactive, always radioactive. Half-lifes dictate that.
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And that we could reuse it for energy again

Not sure. What most of the waste is is heavy plutonium left over from the creation of nuclear fuel. We split the atoms to create isotopes, the waste is the unwanted isotope created by the splitting...keeping it very simple.
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It had mentioned that the United States just doesn’t have the desire to recycle this nuclear waste. Would you like for me to find that thread for you?

Nope. I already 100% believe you.
Posted by Sunnyvale
Little ST. James
Member since Feb 2024
3715 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 9:22 am to
TBH. The bottom of the Ocean, at least the Gulf. Is already Radio Active.
If you pull anything from the Bottom of the Gulf, your not suppose to touch it.
At least that is what they tell us.
Posted by Tarps99
Lafourche Parish
Member since Apr 2017
13236 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 9:24 am to
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Well, water is an excellent shielding material for radioactive material. Adding salt to that water makes it better. Depending how deep undergroind they go, there is not much, if any concern of it getting out. The Gulf coast isn't like the California coast where fault lines open underground pockets to the water column.

If we want dependable, clean energy, we have to put the waste somewhere. Deep under the sea floor is probably the best option.


What about locking it in a salt dome?

We use salt domes to store oil reserves and mine for salt either through using water to convert salt to brine or sending men to down to physically remove the salt.

Salt domes would be hundreds if not thousands of feed deep and as long as the strata around the dome is not pierced like in Lake Peigneur or Bayou Corne it would be a safe place to store anything.


There are also former Sulfur mines that were drained of sulfur.
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
Member since Jan 2011
72630 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 9:24 am to
UUUUUGEEEEEEEE RED SNAPPERS
Posted by UtahCajun
Member since Jul 2021
6914 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 9:29 am to
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TBH. The bottom of the Ocean, at least the Gulf. Is already Radio Active.
If you pull anything from the Bottom of the Gulf, your not suppose to touch it.
At least that is what they tell us

Yes, but there is a really big difference between NORM and waste made from fuel enrichment.
Posted by UtahCajun
Member since Jul 2021
6914 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 9:32 am to
As long as a drilling rig doesn't puncture it, the domes are about a mile down. I actually went down the Morton Mine at Weeks Island back in 1993. It was cool. Like walking on black glass (the salt down there is black from diesel soot)
Posted by Nosevens
Member since Apr 2019
20243 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 9:32 am to
Storing it underneath the deserts seem better
Posted by Sunnyvale
Little ST. James
Member since Feb 2024
3715 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 9:35 am to
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Yes, but there is a really big difference between NORM and waste made from fuel enrichment.



Your right about that.
100%
Posted by WaltWhite504
Member since Sep 2021
2146 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 9:45 am to
Now we know the origin story of the Land of the Lost lizard people. They used to be gators from the gulf coast.

This post was edited on 7/30/26 at 9:46 am
Posted by MemphisGuy
Germantown, TN
Member since Nov 2023
15124 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 9:47 am to
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Louisiana seeking to store Nuclear Waste under the Gulf.

Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
Member since Sep 2018
24478 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 9:57 am to
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What could possibly go wrong folks?


I see you're a problem solver.
Posted by Snipe
Member since Nov 2015
17110 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 9:57 am to
I'd rather see them take their chances at developing the technology to launching that shite to the sun or into the great void of space.

Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
Member since Sep 2018
24478 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 9:58 am to
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I'd rather see them take their chances at developing the technology to launching that shite to the sun or into the great void of space.


Business opportunity for you?
Posted by Ailsa
Member since May 2020
11196 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 10:01 am to
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I seriously thought we sorted it in a desert somewhere and sold it to France for some kind of molten salt reactor.


I don’t know anymore.


Or add it to toothpaste like they did fluoride and tell people it's good for them, after providing scientific studies from scientists that were paid high dollar to make that claim.
Posted by Kjnstkmn
Vermilion Parish
Member since Aug 2020
22625 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 10:03 am to
We should store it in Iran
Posted by TigersBucs
Lake Charles
Member since Oct 2009
1833 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 10:10 am to
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Maybe the book of revelation is true, after all?



Posted by dstone12
Texan
Member since Jan 2007
40987 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 10:10 am to


Tough luck. I found it.

This was a rabbit hole I ventured though earlier this year on nuke energy.

Tigerdroppings minds want to know.
Posted by dstone12
Texan
Member since Jan 2007
40987 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 10:14 am to
Then Lou posted this in my thread.


I liked it.


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This post was edited on 7/30/26 at 10:15 am
Posted by saints5021
Louisiana
Member since Jul 2010
19611 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 10:23 am to
they can have all of New Orleans East to bury it. Nothing is out there.
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