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[โ€“] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We do have one in Germany. While we are searching for suitable long term storage, the barrels are rusting away in salt mines.

[โ€“] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Okay i have to search about this, why the hell the barrels are in salt mines tho? ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago

Salt is plastic and over time will completely engulf the waste.

[โ€“] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

They just dumped them there in the 60s and 70s before there was regulation...

Edit:
Here's two links, if you want to read up on it:

[โ€“] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah now that make more sense