Waste pile
OwnerSerge Wisotsky, Sr.inventor
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Abstract
Apparatus and method for embedding hazardous waste material deeply within stable geological formations. The hazardous material is placed in containers and the containers are placed inside hollow piles. The piles are moved to an offshore location and driven into the seabed.
Claims52
A geophysical repository method to more safely dispose of hazardous wastes in a hollow pile depository buried in a geologically stable subseabed under deep waters of minimum motion and life;
- immobilizing said hazardous materials within containers inside said pile;
- said pile interred into deka-millions years old sediments employing offshore piledriving techniques including repetitively applying impulsive, vibratory, and/or sustained driving forces from an extrinsic power source;
- buying said wastes inside said pile at a minimum depth of one hundred feet within the subseabed;
- precisely determined the location of said buried pile, for entry or future recovery of said containers, by surface and submarine navigation/positioning techniques.
Apparatus to safely dispose of hazardous wastes in a stable, suboceanic geologic repository consisting of an interred, elongated, hollow pile or section of a pile holding one or more containers of said hazardous materials immobilized therein, said pile or section thereof suitable for burial into the subseabed by employing offshore piledriving techniques including sustained applications of driving forces from an extrinsic power source so that said wastes are effectively interred at a minimum depth of 100 feet but, if required, may be recovered within decades from said repository precisely located by oceanographic acoustic/navigation techniques.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.