Go for the nuclear gold!

 

A fine picture of farmland.  They have a choice between stagnation, and all the kids leaving, one way or another, and lots of money.  I say go for it, since it will never be built anyway.

This is just like when Bruce wanted to build a nuclear plant on Lake Erie.  Physics finally caught up with that.  I always loved nuclear plants because, at one time, you could cower the power-people by saying "Stupidity means no plant".  These days, you can't do that.  But you can say to the people - "Stupidity means no waste storage."

I especially like that they must sink a shaft to stop looking stupid to stupids.  You can never a call stupid people 'stupid' because that's the one thing they know, and they put up a vicious fight.  Instead, they ignore you, and you ignore them.

We had to use the entire output of the cement plant to dig some shallow tunnels at Bruce.  All that cement powder is being used, right now, to raise giant condos that will never be filled.  That should stop soon, leaving lots of cement for this.

The big problem is that the rock is so open, that all the grout in the world doesn't help.  But, they will do it anyway, because it's the only thing to do.  Lots of work, lots of money.  At the end, we accepted that the Bruce tunnels were as leaky as a sieve, because they were intake tunnels, anyway.  You can't take nice pictures of a nuclear waste site, in the rain.

You can see here that all the water is off to the side, and can be ignored.  A nuclear waste site must have 'diffusion conditions', but most people are trying to avoid that by hand-waving.  There is only one site in the world I've seen that totally diffusion, and that's politically a no-no.