High level wastes are generated in all operations
involved in processing of spent nuclear fuel. At every public forum people connected
with atomic energy are asked this question: How the department of atomic energy
is going to manage this waste? Do we have any clear-cut answers?
According to
experts – NO is the answer.
High level wastes are only stored under-ground. The disposal option of burial in deep
geological formations is yet to be realised in India. Why the delay is not yet
answered. Any other mode of disposal is prone to be extremely unsafe in view of
the possibility of occurrence of natural calamities such as tsunami,
earthquake, and high floods, and attack by missiles.
Member of the public is of the opinion that the
agencies concerned should give a most feasible reply of disposal of the waste in
deep geological formations, and start doing it!
