At the beginning of the disposal process, the fuel bundles are packed in steel or cast iron containers. The walls of the tanks are several centimeters thick and absorb the radiation so that the tanks can be handled with conventional transport equipment and cranes. The surface of the tanks is stainless metal, for example, stainless steel or copper.

Waste from the recycling process is usually liquid in form. For disposal, it is made into glass. The resulting glass is packed in stainless steel cases.

I believe in encapsulation.

I believe that difficult feelings and traumas should be encapsulated as deeply as possible into the subconscious. A person should bury traumas so carefully that they do not surface under any circumstances. They must find deep in their mind a bedrock strong enough to withstand even the most violent emotional earthquake without forcing the emotion back to the surface.

It makes sense to recognize the dangerousness of emotional matter and respect it by closing it as carefully as possible behind walls and to warn loved ones that there is something dangerous in the area. With the help of regular warnings, friends and acquaintances learn that certain things are simply not to be talked about. Little by little, it is as if painful and shameful things cease to exist.

Not all nuclear waste is made of the same cloth. The more energy released from the uranium fuel, the more radioactive it becomes, the more easily released the radioactive particles. The new reactors are designed to use nuclear fuel even more intensively, i.e., to release more and more energy from the uranium fuel. As a result, the supernuclear waste produced by the new reactor is more dangerous than that of older reactors, but on the other hand, it is produced in lesser quantities.

As far as I can see, people worry about nuclear waste disposal too much.

Today, the long-term radiological effects of the disposal system on people and the environment can be assessed with adequate accuracy. A proper safety assessment, combined with a sufficient level of knowledge about the proposed disposal site, provides the technical basis for deciding whether a particular disposal solution provides an appropriate level of safety for current and future generations.

The average citizen does not understand that nuclear waste disposal is an advanced, complex, and safe process. The initial phase of final disposal includes interim storage of the waste in water basins, which on the one hand conduct the residual heat of the fuel away and on the other hand dampen the radiation of the fuel.

The radioactivity of spent nuclear fuel decays by itself very quickly. Already in the first year after removal from the reactor almost all activity disappears. After forty years, only a thousandth of the original activity remains. At this point, fuel handling is significantly easier. The heat production of the fuel also decreases so much during this waiting period that separate cooling is no longer necessary.

Nuclear waste behaves like emotional waste. Time heals, and the technique of oblivion and isolation is virtually risk-free. Thanks to reliable disposal, sadness and rage remain hidden and do not threaten a normal, conscious readiness for action.

However, many do not understand how to bury and hide their emotional traumas deep and effectively enough. The most foolish ones even go to psychotherapy, start talking about their wounds and traumas openly, really believing that working things out and talking about them could be good.

No one I know has benefited from psychotherapy. Of course, this is no wonder; it would be strange if bringing up old emotional waste was helpful. In most psychotherapy processes, it happens exactly like digging up nuclear waste: the waste turns into an uncontrollable destructive force that causes extensive disasters in the environment.

The most important protection against nuclear waste is the filling substance used for the disposal cave. After the fuel capsules are placed in the cave, dug into the rock, the cave is supposed to be filled. For this purpose, a soft substance that prevents water flows is chosen. The soft substance protects the disposal capsules from compressive forces if the bedrock cracks and absorbs any radioactive substances dissolved from any broken capsules.

Bentonite is usually used as the filler, which swells when wet and seals leakage points.

However, the most important insulator is the rock. The final disposal is carried out at a depth of about four hundred meters. In practice, the radiation emanating from the nuclear waste is attenuated to the level of background radiation at a distance of two meters in the rock surrounding the capsule. Depth is sought for protection against time.

According to many researchers, only human activity or in themselves catastrophic phenomena, such as a meteorite impact, could bring nuclear waste to the surface of the earth. When ice ages, etc., are taken into account in the designs, preservation is practically risk-free.

The necessary final disposal time is about one hundred thousand years, because the radioactivity of the nuclear fuel by then has decreased to the level of natural uranium. Then it can be said that nuclear waste no longer poses a risk different from natural substances.

A hundred thousand years pass surprisingly quickly.

Life has taught me firsthand that a person should never start going through all the sorrows of his life, because sorrows, despair, and depression will never end.

A person opening up about his grief and rage can easily be starting a life-long project. If a person starts to cry about their woes now, it may be that they will not be able to stop crying for their whole life. Without realizing it, they find themselves in a situation where they explain the pitfalls of their life to everyone around them, driving people away with their confessions and constant rumination. They make listeners of everyone, and listeners leave them one by one.

To avoid this, a person must learn to close and lock their gates. They need to learn to stare at the campfire, the fireplace, and the television in silence, and they need to learn to drink alcohol by themselves so that no one can provoke drunken crying fits.

A person must learn to forget significant parts of their life and to ignore most of their feelings. They must learn to regard others as bystanders, whose comfort and support they must refuse - because if they rely on this support once, they will depend on it for the rest of their life. Once exposed, a weakness always follows a person. Dependence on others is apt to cause excavations in the emotional danger zone and reveal all the carefully buried waste.

The essence of the strategy is to refuse the offered help, to encapsulate the material purposefully and absolutely alone, to ignore the inner voices that demand attention as well as any possible signals and alarms from the body.

By becoming truly alone, a person eventually reaches a pleasant state of independence where no one can see inside them. Compared to this proud self-sufficiency, it is a small price to pay to lie alone on one’s deathbed and to hide one’s last shreds of emotion deep within a crevice of rock, away from one’s petrified face that, as one’s strength diminishes, threatens to soften and melt.