Over recent days at the end of an obstacle course in which various municipalities in Spain are struggling to become the welcoming of the future central temporary storage of nuclear waste in our country.
The idea of \u200b\u200bhaving a warehouse to house the waste generated by our nuclear plants is fully defensible against the current status of generating plants that will store the waste they generate.
is, in my view, the less clear the system chosen to search for the location of the installation. Demographic problems, the crisis of rural depopulation or suffered by our people can not determine, only the location of a store or not waste is waste that does not forget nuclear. It seems technically sound
choose the possible location of a center of these characteristics on a number of technical and safety conditions. Namely, without wishing to be exhaustive ...
• Properties geological terrain. A waste facility of this nature should be able to ensure stringent sealing characteristics, which although in part be achieved with artificial elements (geo-drains, sheet waterproofing, bentonite compounds ...), must have intrinsic properties from layers of clay, subsoil characteristics, faults, etc ...
• Minimizing transport. Radioactive waste will be transported, possibly by road or rail from the Power Plants to the Storage Center. It seems necessary to study sites based on the minimization of the routes, depending on the security and the characteristics of roads to use.
• meteorological conditioning. The location of the store should have taken into account the presence of prevailing winds in the area that can accelerate the dispersion of radioactive leak case and the rainfall in the area to prevent contamination of aquifers of interest.
• Minimizing affected population in case of accident . Not be discarded in any case the small chance of occurrence of a failure to install and therefore leakage of radioactivity into the surrounding environment. The number of possible affected population in this case and distances to major population centers should be studied as well.
• security measures necessary and possible . The storage facility would become a facility of strategic interest that should have security measures and specific media. The location of the media along with the possibility of specific actions are also points to consider in the decision process.
not know the whole process being pursued behind closed doors of the centers of decision. But hopefully common sense will prevail to the economic and political interests of some.
Marcos Alvarez
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