Finnish nuclear waste panic

"Managing" nuclear waste or coal ashes is a complete fallacy. In any long term analysis, you need to dump this stuff somewhere, let nature take its course, and forget about it. Uranium is mined from the earth, where it is naturally present with all the other elements that result from burning Uranium. Any use of it in an artificial manmade reactor is geologically inconsequential to the earth or its ecosystem.

Finland is on the verge of an incredible human-made alteration deep beneath the Earth: ‘They’ll hold a total of 5,500 tonnes of waste’

“Onkalo will take all the high-level nuclear waste produced by Finland’s five nuclear power plants in their entire life cycles.”

Yahoo NewsMargaret Wong

The objective of storing it has nothing to do with environmental safety and everything to do with storing precursor isotopes for nuclear weapons.

Or else the spent fuel might be recycled and re-concentrated or re-enriched to continue fueling the same reactors, if there is so much of it and that is more economical than mining fresh Uranium.

Oh. Is this stuff radioactive? So is the Aurora Borealis.

Northern Lights To Dazzle 18 States Monday Night With Unprecedented Aurora Displays

Millions across the U.S. could witness northern lights Monday night as a powerful geomagnetic storm lights up the sky far beyond usual northern latitudes.

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries ChannelLydia Amazouz

The Finns are quite familiar with the Northern Lights, and their night skies are so often lit up with enough ionizing radiation in comparison that they shouldn't be in a continual panic mode over every little bit of spent fuel or meltdown sludge or spend so much time and money curating this stuff like gold bars or precious works of art.