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Why didn't it work for Germany

In the 1960s, Germany tackled its Nuclear Waste problem by burying their intermediate and low-level waste in salt mines at Morselbad and Asse.



There are a number of things you can take from the video.

First, they did very little geological research, before deciding to use this mine and ine at Morsellbad to store Nuclear Waste. At the time rock salt was thought to be the best rock for storing Nuclear material. I made a good barrier to radiation, and it is dry.

Second, there was no water in the mine until there was. For twenty years it was dry but then water started to seep in. What this tells us is that we can sink boreholes and find no groundwater today but that is no guarantee that it won't be there in twenty years

Third, Rocks move meaning that not only did water suddenly appear but also means that it continues to get worse.


NWS has told us that it couldn't happen here because they have done their research. However, hundreds of years of mining should have told us that when working deep underground, nothing can be taken for granted.

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Jam Ward
Jam Ward
4 days ago

Do you have any evidence to show it wouldn't work here in Theddlethorpe? Are the current plans better or worse, in your uneducated opinion? This is pure scaremongering used to defend your NIMBY-ism.

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