The use of nuclear power for electricity generation has only one serious, unsolved problem: how to provide for the safe, secure, permanent, and affordable disposal of radioactive nuclear waste.  NSIE has developed a proprietary method for accomplishing this goal and thereby paving the way for the unlimited production of affordable, clean, and dependable nuclear electricity for endless generations to come.

By an act of Congress, nuclear power generation companies in the U.S. are required to store their radioactive waste onsite and to maintain the safety of that waste, for 60 years – with an automatic extension (as mandated by Congress) of an additional 60 years.  The public pays a high price for the ongoing “temporary” storage and management of this waste, while in the meantime, dangerous, radioactive elements are leaching into the local groundwater at every nuclear power plant site in our nation.  In addition, the stored nuclear waste remains at risk of destructive intervention by any criminal or terrorist organization that may try to extort financial or political concessions from our nation.

NSIE’s solution is the creation of a strong, secure, and provably safe container for the encapsulation, transportation, and disposal of radioactive waste.  We have designed and developed a container made of Ultra High Performance (UHP) concrete with a compression strength of well over forty tons per square inch.  Our containers are easy to manufacture, create a very minimally adverse environmental footprint, and are much less expensive than any other type of container currently in use for merely storing – not disposing of – radioactive waste. 

Each container will have industry-standard handles embedded in the sides as attachment points for lifting, handling, and loading the containers for transportation.  Each container will also have embedded computer chips for unique identification and will include monitoring and GPS location sensors for real-time tracking.  The sheer size of each container provides great security from any attempts to seize and escape with them for any unlawful or destructive purposes.  The sensors and GPS locators will provide instantaneous monitoring of each container and will ensure that each can be precisely located at any given moment from its manufacture, to its loading with radioactive waste, to its transportation, and to its final disposal.

Various governmental agencies estimate our nation's total amount of high-level radioactive waste at 100,000 to 200,000 tons.  This waste is mainly in the form of spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants.  In addition, scientists and nuclear power industry experts estimate the amount of low- and medium-level waste at 150 to 200 million tons.  Neither governmental agencies nor nuclear power industry experts have created any practical solutions that can realistically and affordably solve the problem of the permanent disposal of radioactive nuclear waste. 

There are no realistic prospects for terrorists or criminals to hijack these UHP containers; they are large, heavy, and unwieldy.  The several monitoring and tracking devices NSIE will use will make it virtually impossible for hostile agents to seize them and make an effective escape without being quickly detected and intercepted.  The size and strength of our UHP containers make them very safe from terrorist or criminal attacks.  Our nation has a perfect record, for well over 60 years, of safe transportation of radioactive waste materials, without a single mishap resulting in death because of radiation exposure.  There has never been an example of any criminal or terrorist intervention against the safe transportation of radioactive nuclear waste in our country.

NSIE will transport the containers following the well-established regulations and procedures created and overseen by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Department of Transportation.  The safe transportation of radioactive nuclear waste via the highways, railways, and waterways of our nation is already well provided for and has been well-tested for many years without a single death caused by the release of radioactive materials.  NSIE will strictly comply with these regulations and guidelines.

The geographic location of the final disposal site for all of our radioactive waste is the second main part of NSIE’s unique solution.  The containers will be transported to several major ocean ports; cargo ships will transport the containers to the precise location over the subduction zones, and the containers will then be inserted into the sediment layer of the deep oceanic trenches, approximately 50-75 miles offshore from the mainland.  For our own national purposes, the two key locations will be the Puerto Rico trench, about one thousand miles southeast of Miami, and the Cascadia trench, about 50-75 miles offshore from the states of Oregon and Washington.

Once the containers have been inserted into the sediment layer of the subduction zone, they will begin their unstoppable descent into the lower depths of the oceanic trenches on their way to the magma of the earth’s core.  That downward journey of 450 miles, driven by the force of gravity, will take about twenty million years.  The radioactivity of the key elements will have dissipated, and the remains of the UHP containers and the contents thereof will be rejoined into the magma of the earth – which is precisely where it all came from, to begin with.

The current U.S. Government's position on radioactive nuclear waste focuses on managing and storing the waste, not disposing of it.  There is currently no program in operation for the final disposal of that waste.  The danger to the public and to the natural environment grows steadily worse.  Speculative proposals for the safe storage of waste in underground depositories fifteen hundred to two thousand feet below the surface of the ground cannot guarantee the long-term security of the radioactive waste.  All such proposals for underground geologic disposal are very expensive.  Nor can they guarantee the long-term safety of the human and natural environment from future contamination.  The possibility of a natural or man-made disaster is almost inevitable.  NSIE’s methodology ensures that unlimited quantities of dangerous radioactive waste will never endanger the human or natural environment again by disposing of all of it, in unlimited quantities and with perfect safety, forever.  

The only serious difficulty with the nuclear production of electrical power is the question of what to do with the dangerous radioactive nuclear waste.  Our disposal methodology will allow for the rapid expansion of clean, affordable, safe, and dependable nuclear power in our nation and around the world and for the early decommissioning and retirement of all coal and other fossil fuel plants.  That alone will provide a remarkable enhancement of the environment and a major improvement in the overall health of people all around the world.  The World Health Organization calculates that over 1.2 million people die each year as a direct result of the air pollution caused by coal-burning power plants and other uses of fossil fuels.  The beneficial effects on the world environment will be immeasurable, permanent, and ongoing.  Our methodology can also provide for the complete disposal of all other forms of hazardous materials as well, such as industrial, chemical, biological, and medical waste of every sort.  NSIE offers a comprehensive solution, providing for the safe, secure, permanent, and affordable containment and disposal of all radioactive waste in unlimited quantities and in perfect safety forever.