Nuclear Waste Subduction Zone

Study of subduction for nuclear waste disposal.

Nuclear power plant vs wind farm the cold war person of interest. Baird jratshawca disposal of nuclear materials in subduction zones has recently been eliminated from britains list2 of waste management options. The mariana trench is the deepest subduction zone trench in the world. Toronto on m4t 1e2.

This means that actually if you put all your nuclear waste on that surface zone theres a big possibility it would shoot out a volcano probably in a few. The movement of one section of the earths crust below another is marked offshore by a trench and earthquakes commonly occur adjacent to the inclined contact between the two plates. 16082012 095351 notwithstanding legal political ramifications there are a couple of issues with this keeping the material contained until it had been subducted which will be a period of thousands of years and preventing it becoming caught up in the.

As already stated subduction zones are not ideal for nuclear waste disposal partly due to this earthquake hazard. However even on land earthquakes up to magnitude eight are found. 7 8 centimeters or approximately 3 inches per year.

A magnitude six earthquake produces a slip of about 30 cm with a magnitude eight slipping about 8 m. Reply 2 on. Nuclear waste management organization.

Dowdeswell in a telephone conversation with me dr. A long term repository for nuclear waste is required to be geologically stable so that we can be sure it will not change over many thousands of years. Frank king of the opg with my thoughts on the problem of the.

Disposal of high level material in subduction zones a rebuttal jim baird inventor and holder of us. Disposing of nuclear waste in subduction zones or oceanic trenches may seem like a good idea but it simply isnt plausible. In general scientists and engineers feel this form of disposal is either a.

49 jackes avenue first floor. Disposal at subduction zones. Michael stephens of the aecl suggested that i contact you and dr.

Patent 5022788 and canadian patent 2005376 for the subductive waste disposal method1. It goes down at about a 30 degree. The proposed land based subductive waste disposal method disposes of nuclear waste in a subduction zone accessed from land and therefore is not prohibited by international agreement.

Subduction zones are areas where one denser section of the earths crust is descending beneath another lighter more buoyant section. And so you get a lot of volcanism related to subduction zones and its this top layer heating up melting and floating up to the surface through the surrounding rock and creating volcanoes. This method has been described as the most viable means of disposing of radioactive waste 89 and as the state of the art as of 2001 in nuclear waste disposal.

Disposing of nuclear waste in subduction zones or oceanic trenches may seem like a good idea but it simply isnt plausible.