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Comment by petermcneeley | Hacker News Reader

It should be a boat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench#Possible_nuclea...

I saw a video on this, honestly just seems like it'd work. And if it doesn't, well, the bottom of the literal sea seems like a good place to put stuff to avoid people stumbling upon it.

this issue then is, will dumping this stop it stumbling along people...

ie we know nothing much about that area... who's to say it wont suddenly turn up on a beach or in fish or plant life after 50 years of being down there...?

Not saying we know everything but we generally know of where geologically inactive regions are, and hadal habitats are pretty isolated.

> who's to say it wont suddenly turn up on a beach or in fish or plant life after 50 years of being down there...?

erm, the literal 10 kilometers of water above them?

Also Mariana Trench is called a trench because is a trench. A trench 10 km deep.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036526

We dont know what we dont know... what else do we not know?

I've always thought piling it up in the middle of Antarctica would be best. Perhaps in another thousand years we can reuse it for some blackhole experiments or something.

If we are here 1k years from now I am sure we can pick up up from the ocean again. Just like how we look through the trash of the Romans.

From your link:

Furthermore, plate subduction zones are associated with very large megathrust earthquakes, the effects of which are unpredictable for the safety of long-term disposal of nuclear wastes within the hadopelagic ecosystem.[53]

The Meg 3: Radioactive

(Premise of The Meg ***SPOILER*** is megalodon sharks survived in the Mariana Trench)

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