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Re: " Nuclear waste could bury itself "

To: crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM (John Jacobus), jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET (Jerry Cohen), frantaj@AECL.CA ("Franta, Jaroslav"), cdn-nucl-l@informer2.cis.McMaster.CA ("multiple \(E-mail\)"), radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu ("Radsafe \(E-mail\)")
Subject: Re: " Nuclear waste could bury itself "
From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:18:13 -0400
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:33:37 -0600
Reply-To: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM
Sender: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

The "rock" in which the WIPP repository is located is salt (the Salado formation).  Salt is fairly plastic, and as rooms are excavated, the pressure on the ceilings pushes them (the ceilings) down.  they can be stabilized temporarily with ceiling bolts, but after s few years they collapse and burty the waste.



Ruth



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