Urwumpe
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Its like the fun with the German long term storage for nuclear waste... 60% of the waste inside the storage of the GDR at Morsleben (Just next door to the former border) is from west German nuclear power plants. A new conservative, talented minister for nuclear safety called Angela Merkel back then ordered to use it because it already existed (And tried to extend its operation license by trying to let GDR law apply in reunified Germany for a few years more) . But, all was orderly stored and documented there by the former GDR engineers and removing the waste is no high-risk operation today, they even used sophisticated storages comparable to modern CASTOR casks.
And more fun, only a few kilometers away, at Asse, is the western German "experimental" storage just on the other side of the former border. It was only supposed to be used for testing technologies. But they simply dropped simple steel barrels into the salt and move some more salt over it, which makes it almost impossible to retrieved all waste from it. Also, it is partially unknown, what is stored there. Not all barrels had been properly documented. It is plain luck, that no criticality event took place there yet - nobody knows how much Plutonium for example is put into a small volume and further compacted.
And more fun: Contrary to previous claims of western German politicians about the GDR storage, this one is still solid and not threatened of immediate flooding, while the western German one is already slowly flooding and time is running out to evacuate the nuclear waste from there.
And now, does Russia still look so much more dangerous to you compared to the nonsense lazy politicians here can do?
---------- Post added 22nd Oct 2019 at 14:07 ---------- Previous post was 21st Oct 2019 at 23:24 ----------
The true reason why the Boris has to ask for a new Brexit date:
And more fun, only a few kilometers away, at Asse, is the western German "experimental" storage just on the other side of the former border. It was only supposed to be used for testing technologies. But they simply dropped simple steel barrels into the salt and move some more salt over it, which makes it almost impossible to retrieved all waste from it. Also, it is partially unknown, what is stored there. Not all barrels had been properly documented. It is plain luck, that no criticality event took place there yet - nobody knows how much Plutonium for example is put into a small volume and further compacted.
And more fun: Contrary to previous claims of western German politicians about the GDR storage, this one is still solid and not threatened of immediate flooding, while the western German one is already slowly flooding and time is running out to evacuate the nuclear waste from there.
And now, does Russia still look so much more dangerous to you compared to the nonsense lazy politicians here can do?
---------- Post added 22nd Oct 2019 at 14:07 ---------- Previous post was 21st Oct 2019 at 23:24 ----------
The true reason why the Boris has to ask for a new Brexit date:
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. The approach was not to get high-watt lightbulbs, but to have some humongous chandelier hang from the ceiling, with several low-watt light bulbs . There were the old soviet appartments for the party members which actually had multiple light switches so you could control which light bulbs were on. Pure insanity, looking back at it, especially since power outages were the norm.
