Why don't we bury nuclear waste in subduction zones?

People have been discussing the disposal of nuclear waste in subduction trenches for decades. (The Mariana Trench is the deepest subduction zone trench in the world). read more

Kelly has some good points, but accentuates the negative. For example: point a: “transport and containment costs are prohibitive”. Well its about finding cost effective solutions, not assuming it’s impossible. read more

And so, you get a lot of volcanism related to subduction zones and it's this top layer heating up, melting and floating up to the surface through the surrounding rock and creating volcanoes. This means that actually, if you put all your nuclear waste on that surface zone, there's a big possibility it would shoot out a volcano, probably in a few hundred thousand million years later. read more