Alternative schemes
Three different schemes are being considered by engineers for dumping nuclear waste in the seabed. The first plan, the penetrator project, would involve the construction of “rockets," each containing five canisters of highly radioactive nuclear waste. The penetrators would be dropped, or fired downwards, towards the seabed so that they became embedded there. The second scheme, the borehole plan, would exploit North sea oil technology to drill deep wells in the seabed. These would be lined with a special casing before canisters were carefully lowered into them. The last project, the repository, would be primarily used for storing some of the less radioactive wastes in a network of underground caverns.
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Press, 17 December 1988, Page 22
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