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.

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