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1. Expectations of what to do in these situations should have been negotiated when Spain agreed to let US fly nuclear armed airplanes in their airspace. 2. The
by htag 3y ago
1. Expectations of what to do in these situations should have been negotiated when Spain agreed to let US fly nuclear armed airplanes in their airspace.
2. The Spanish government is currently renting the land from it's owners. I am very curious about the rent, as this land is currently useless. I don't know the details of Spanish law, but on the face this seems like a good case for eminent domain.
3. At this point, the cleanup process would involve moving dirt that contains trace amounts of radioactive material. This has been done before, but I think this would be both the largest effort and the one in which the dirt traveled the furthest (from Spain to the US, probably to a facility west of the Mississippi River.
4. Once the topsoil is removed, then what? Replace it with top soil harvested from someplace else? Start a project to restore the topsoil with lots of compost? It'll take another sixty years.
EDIT: This type of cleanup is an ideal use case for robotics, and I would love to see what technology they use to perform the cleanup. I imagine several semi-autonomous remote controlled tractor sized machines loading into containment boxes made of nine inch thick steel.
- logi2mus 3y ago1. Well should have, but I think in that time nuclear waste was dumped into the ocean. 2. long term lease is common and not that expensive for agricultural land. 3. Well done in Fukushima, I think it is not that big of adifficulty. As it is low activity waste so old mines should do. 4. Renaturation is standard in for example open pit coal mines.
- juujian 3y agoRenaturation is standard, but the environmental quality of result is still subpar. Sometimes it looks pretty, but plant and insect diversity is very low. It's a good idea to think about this -- i cannot think of any large scale example that has ecologic and not just PR value.
- btilly 3y agoI've been to https://www.butchartgardens.com/ https://www.butchartgardens.com/. It is admittedly a highly artificial example, but it is an extremely pretty reclaimed coal mine that is reasonably large, and with good plant diversity. They don't use herbicides or pesticides, but instead rely on released insects to protect the plants. (Unfortunately they have not found an alternative to fungicides to protect the roses.) This suggests at least some insect diversity.
- logi2mus 3y agoWell the site is semi arid desert so PV could be an option to use it.
- bigbacaloa 3y agoFranco was in charge when this was allowed.