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Comment by philthy | Hacker News Reader

This is a ridiculous waste of money. What happens when there is a major continental fracture/disaster in the next 10000 years putting the sites possibly thousands of miles in any direction... I know it isn't likely to happen but putting this refuse inside the planet probably isn't a good idea.

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The site's chosen because of its relative geological stability, and anyway, geology doesn't work that way. An example of a "major continental fracture" would be the Great Rift Valley, one of the few places on earth where you can watch a new divergent plate boundary being formed. It started about 65 million years ago, and has resulted in one major sea that is about 250 miles wide, and a few big lakes.

10,000 years is a blink in geologic time. Even on an active plate boundary, you might see the earth move maybe a couple hundred meters in that time period.

    I know it isn't likely to happen 
    but putting this refuse inside 
    the planet probably isn't a good 
    idea.

Where do you think Uranium comes from?

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