1. Dispersion
1.1. What are the cost of?
1.1.1. Dilute the waste with some material and scatter it to minimize local radiation
1.1.1.1. Is there a material that can selectively dilute uranium like a salt in water?
1.1.1.2. Over what area would the hazardous material need to be scattered to be "safe"
1.2. Transform them into something also?
1.2.1. Is this new material recyclable?
1.2.2. Is this new material reutilizable?
1.2.3. Create life like "thing" that eats radiation
1.2.3.1. Could a nano organism store low level radioactive material in its belly and use it for energy.
1.2.3.2. might not need to be life like. Maybe some compound could absorb the waste?
1.2.4. recycle it into fuel
1.3. Use nuclear waste as nuclear weapons to protect against meteors hitting the earth
1.4. Develop alternative chemical uses for nuclear waste
1.5. Use nuclear waste for rocket fuel
1.6. Develop new lasers that use nuclear waste
1.7. Make passive nuclear reactors with nuclear waste
2. Containment
2.1. Contain waste in glass
2.1.1. Glass is brittle will broken glass expose radiation?
2.2. Contain waste in lead
2.2.1. Is there a way to permanently prevent corrosion?
2.3. Find another substance that can contain nuclear radiation and test it for durability and weathering
2.4. Non-corrosive containers to store nuclear waste in ocean trenches
2.5. Store nuclear waste in salt domes in the ocean
2.6. Deep borehole injection
2.6.1. fault systems?
2.6.2. is it deep enough?
2.7. Place nuclear waste at the bottom of ice caps in Antarctica
2.8. under inactive mountains?
2.8.1. Keep storing nuclear waste in Yuka Mountain
2.8.1.1. Store nuclear waste in shale formations
2.9. Invest in new storage technologies for nuclear waste
2.10. Store nuclear waste in abandoned salt mines
2.11. Store nuclear waste in the Sahara desert
3. Replace them for another source of energy
3.1. Why not trying to reduce the disposal of nuclear waste by reducing the use of nuclear energy?
4. Disposal strategies
4.1. What agencies currently regulate the disposal?
4.2. Are the current disposal strategies similar worldwide?
4.2.1. If not, what are the characteristics of the reactors in those countries with less percentage of waste generation? -- Learn from them.
4.3. Have there been any recent attempts to reduce the disposal of nuclear waste?
4.3.1. Have they had any success?
4.3.2. In which country/countries those attempts have taken place?
4.3.3. Have the details of the experiments been shared worldwide?
4.3.4. What exactly those attempts have consisted of?
4.3.5. Are there economic interests against this type of research?
4.3.5.1. How much money would cost to reduce the disposal of nuclear waste by a certain percentage?
4.3.5.1.1. Have these economic studies been carried out?
4.3.5.1.2. Is the reduction that difficult because it is not known yet how the technology needs to be modified or because it is not known how to modify it in a profitable way?
5. Types of nuclear waste
5.1. Should we equally focus on reducing the disposal of the different types of nuclear waste?
5.2. Low-level waste contains a small percentage of radioactivity but represents a large volume of the total waste. Regarding high-level waste, it is the other way round. What type of waste is more important to reduce?
5.2.1. With respect to the waste with a large percentage of radioactive content, should we equally focus on reducing the disposal of waste that contains short-lived isotopes than on that of the waste containing isotopes with long-lasting radiactivity?
5.3. What type of waste is easier to reduce?
6. Removal
6.1. Send waste to outerspace
6.1.1. what are the costs?
6.1.1.1. Environmental (fuel)
6.1.1.2. Resources
6.1.1.2.1. People
6.1.1.2.2. Materials
6.1.1.2.3. Economic
6.1.2. Send them into another planet?
6.1.2.1. what are the costs?
6.1.2.1.1. Environmental (fuel)
6.1.2.1.2. Resources
6.1.2.2. Environmental problems in that planet
6.1.2.2.1. possible problems in that planet, could affect us?
6.1.2.3. Maybe Jupiter?
6.1.3. Send into the sun?
6.1.4. What problems could cause, being outerspace?
6.1.4.1. Those problems affect earth in some way?
6.1.5. Will it ever come back?
6.1.5.1. What would an atmosphere re-entry do?
6.1.6. What happens if a rocket explodes on departure?
6.1.7. Send away using solar wind?
6.2. Place waste tectonically impermeable cavity in the subsurface
6.2.1. Is there even a possibility of finding this?
6.3. Develop nuclear waste recycling to avoid disposal sites
7. HOW TO USE THIS BEAST
7.1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQxxl3TZYKE&t=41
8. Trash
8.1. Disperse radiation around the world and take a survival of the fittest approach
8.1.1. See what survives and bioengineer to make sure all essential life survives
8.2. Create a zoned wasteland an area deemed unsuitable for life and dump waste there
8.2.1. Is there an area on the surface that does not transport material via wind and water to other areas?
8.3. Go lord of the rings on it and throw it into the hottest volcano we can find
8.3.1. how would that change the lava?