Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Overview

An overview of WIPP including a description of its history, waste characterization, and disposal activities.
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[@TheRavenOfDestiny]

I like to take my nuclear waste disposal methods, with a grain of salt.

[@cpt.taselbymc8400]

But, will this work? Or will a far-future civilization see our warnings as nothing more than a mystery to solve?

[@MaskedKittyYT]

they’ll probably see it as a mystery to solve, after all we were told not to open the pyramids and to leave them alone with the promise of our death and we opened those anyways. our future future generations will not listen, that i’m sure off. after all that’s what humanity has done for as long as it’s been around, and if our future is anything like us, well, they’ll do what we did.

[@maynorflores7876]

theres a room and inside that room there is walls of granite that in carved in it says the 7 most spoken languages the dangers if they are going to mine it and i think in the future they will have knowledge already of what's inside thanks to the internet and they might take the signs seriously now that we have enough power to cause a mass extinction unlike the pharos they couldn't destroy the world we had knowledge they didn't have any mystical powers by the wars they had so i dont think it will ever be opened

[@washingtonhidalgo3056]

I wonder, why future civilization will like to meddle in this desolated area, looking for treasure? better not

[@washingtonhidalgo3056]

I'm confident that we're doing everything possible to tell the future generations: Don't dig here.

[@washingtonhidalgo3056]

Finland is setting up high standards and they already have an excellent place to entomb this nuclear waste; shouldn't the USA figure out what to do and mostly find a place to bury this dangerous trash?

[@macrowave9427]

She sounds like the announcer from black mesa in half-life

[@Arghira]

you probably know what happened in 2014

[@Jaeden_Phoenix]

It's all fun and games until people 2000 years from now Dig it Up because it looks interesting? You think they won't? We had warnings about digging up the Pyramids, we did it anyway!

[@reika2380]

Are you here from the Jacob Geller's Fear of Depths video essay too? :D

[@Jkg71]

@@reika2380 yes

[@Taizyaija]

“Yo this place must have so much honor. I wonder what wicked deeds were esteemed here?”

[@Grimguapo]

@@reika2380 yep I am

[@heathermarie1334]

“Far from population centers” Except for the fact that Carlsbad, Hobbs, Eunice, and Artesia, are all booming population centers where people from all over the country come looking for work in the oilfield. So much so in fact that housing developments have gone up all over the area, developers have come into the area purchasing up land and plopping down apartment complexes without any fear of whether or not they will be rented. They will. At a price of about 1200$ a month for a studio apartment. Because housing is in demand. Because it’s a booming population center. Oh and don’t mind the fact that consumable products are produced in this area. Like cattle, dairy, and crops. There’s a uranium enrichment facility about 45mins-60mins SSE of this WIPP site. Don’t worry. There’s people and food being produced in that area too. Oh and this entire area is the flood plains. So plenty of water sloshing around in the highly permeable limestone formations under our feet leftover from the Permian sea. They will be building another nuclear waste facility here soon. It recently was approved. This one will accept high level waste.

[@Grimguapo]

wait so theyre not properly taking care of the area and allowing peopel to live around the area also? and want to add even more waste facility's there?

[@washingtonhidalgo3056]

I congratulate you folks for the selection and the development of this site, if only we could convince the Nevadans politicians that Yucca Mountain is the other best place to entomb nuclear waste, will be just fine, why do we have to settle for a big NO answer.

[@geomodelrailroader]

after INEL removes their sludge from the Snake River Aquifer and drys it out it will end up here at WIPP where it will be destroyed. Now that WIPP is reopened INEL can continue shipping the sludge out so it can be disposed of properly. You made a mistake DOE when you dumped those sludge drums into the Snake River Aquifer and now you must fix it and send the sludge to WIPP where it can be properly disposed of.

[@pikminlord343]

how informative

[@worldchangingvideos6253]

New que lar!

[@RaccoonNation]

0:49 “sludges,soils..” Human body decomp sludge? Is that what we’re talking about?