The site will be composed of roughly a hundred interconnected storage tunnels. Each of those e tunnels will have a capacity for 65 tons of spent fuel in 30 evenly spaced holes. After a hundred years, the entire thing gets back filled and sealed off from the surface. But what stopped something like this being built over and over again in other countries is nimbeism. Most don't want nuclear ways to be buried in their back yard for millions of years.
As the first fatal cases outside Africa are reported, we investigate the response to the disease, and the parallels with the early days of HIV. Nuclear waste has been stockpiled in supposedly temporary pools for decades; our correspondent visits the first place it is being permanently entombed. And where education is failing even amid encouraging enrolment numbers.
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