Gobi Desert.
Daxia Nuclear Waste Storage Base.
"Our country produces about 3,200 to 3,500 tons of nuclear waste every year, nearly one third of the global total."
"Among these—"
"High-level waste accounts for about 1% of the total, with extremely strong radioactivity and a half-life reaching tens of thousands of years."
"Mid- and low-level waste makes up 99%, with shorter half-lives, treated using cement and asphalt solidification technologies."
"The main concern is the high-level waste; its pollution is the most severe, and with current technology, it cannot be fully remediated. It can only be treated with 'glass solidification' and then buried."
"We melt high-level liquid waste with glass materials at 1100℃, let it cool to form a stable glass body, then wrap it in metal drums and bentonite, and finally bury it 500 to 1000 meters underground."
"Yu Jin, the place beneath your feet right now is our largest solid nuclear waste burial site in Daxia."
