Nuclear waste storage sites in rock salt may be more vulnerable than previously thought
Thursday, November 26, 2015 - 14:20
in Earth & Climate
Research from The University of Texas at Austin shows that rock salt, used by Germany and the United States as a subsurface container for radioactive waste, might not be as impermeable as thought or as capable of isolating nuclear waste from groundwater in the event that a capsule or storage vessel failed.