... climate with precipitation averaging only about 7.5 inches per year and little of this precipitation is absorbed by the mountain. Most of it (about 95 percent), runs off, is absorbed by root systems of vegetation, or is lost to evaporation. This significantly limits the amount of water available to infiltrate the surface, move down through the thousand feet of unsaturated rock, and seep into emplacement tunnels. The repository is intended to reach somewhere around 1,000 feet down and will be roughly 1,000 feet above the water basin that resides underneath. The claim is that after the 10,000 year lifespan that the canisters that the waste will be stored in loose their integrity, the water underneath is an isolated hydrological basin that does not connect to any lakes or rivers that discharge into the ocean and contamination will be isolated. These and other qualities, qualifies the location to be a sufficiently ...

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