Doug BostromDecades ago my dad and a colleague had the bright idea of dumping "stabilized" nuclear waste into subduction trenches, the idea being rapid burial would beat containment degeneration. They made quite a splash-- until somebody less target-fixated pointed out the problem of fluid travel and circulation.
The "buried" reactor concept seems to share that myopia, at least as described in this article. Let alone the problem of mixing due to loop separation failure, the odds of finding places for these with groundwater isolation suitable for handling thousands of years of decay of a stuck unit seem slim.
