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Cost of Storing Radioactive Waste Through Staff

If we take some of the models of storing radioactive waste at 10,000, 100,000 or 1 million years.

I was just wondering if there was a security personnel and there wage were say from the year 2000 as a baseline say a salary $10,000 per year.

What would the salary be of that person doing that job in 10,000, 100,000 or 1 million years time be?

I believe it would take more than one person to maintain such a facility to hold radioactive waste.

This is just a simple question on economics.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Supertoaster2 (talk • contribs) 16:47, 16 June 2009

Misrepresentation of source

In the section "Geologic disposal": "Aside from dilution, chemically toxic stable elements in some waste such as arsenic remain toxic for up to billions of years or indefinitely."

The source mentions arsenic in the context of long-term waste problems from carcinogenic elements from the buried wastes produced by non-nuclear methods of generating electricity ! The point being that while we worry about the danger of nuclear waste, these dangers dissapear with time, unlike those of non-nuclear carcinogens in the waste produced by fossile fuel plants. Ssscienccce (talk) 18:56, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

I might edit this a bit, in part because of misuse of words, using radioisotopes, rather than radionuclides. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graemem56 (talk • contribs) 12:19, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Specifically, C & C are radio-isotopes, & CC are non-radioactive isotopes. But C, K & Sr are not radio-isotopes for the same reason that C, K & Sr are not isotopes. C, K & Sr are radio-nuclides.Graemem56 (talk) 12:30, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Proliferation

In addition to plutonium-239, which is highly suitable for building nuclear weapons, it contains large amounts of undesirable contaminants: plutonium-240, plutonium-241, and plutonium-238. Pu240 has a high spontaneous fission rate, which complicates weapons design. Pu238 is an alpha emitter, I don't see SF specified. Does Pu241 also have a high SF rate? Gah4 (talk) 14:36, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

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High Level Waste

The section on High Level Waste confuses Spent Nuclear Fuel and High Level Waste. This needs to be fixed by someone that is an Engineer or Physicist rather than an anti-nuclear activist. Tyrerj (talk) 19:10, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

@Tyrerj: I started adding distinctions here but I could definitely use some help if you have good technical references on this subject. Cloud200 (talk) 21:53, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
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