1. Asse does not house spent reactor fuel
reply2. It was an old mine turned into a research mine. It was never intended for actual use.
3. The waste there is mostly medical and low-level other waste like gloves.
4. It is actually safe where it is, moving it is another giant waste of time and money whose sole intent is to stoke fear and create costs.
1. Does it matter where the radioactive material comes from? It still represents the ability of storing nuclear waste.
2. Never intended, but still used as such [0]
4. Seems like most experts disagree here
reply[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20140118011319/http://www.haz.de...
Why the hell did they build this in a former salt mine with known water intrusion.
replyThey didn't. It's a research mine and never stored any spent fuel.
replyasse was never intended to be final repository. It was experimental repository without a plan to extract the waste if their experiment goes sideways. Onkalo does account for such factors, hence the name- final repository
replyMost of the waste in asse is from medical and research sectors