CDR: Re: Nuclear waste
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Sat Oct 21 21:51:39 PDT 2000
At 9:02 PM -0700 10/21/00, petro wrote:
>May:
>>5. Not that this is necessarily the best option. The domes in deep
>>caves are perfectly fine. And there is much to be said for the
>>Pournelle/Hogan solution: put the vitreous beads in concrete-filled
>>drums, load them onto pallets, then park the pallets in neat rows
>>and columns in the center of a 10 km by 10 km fenced area in the
>>Mojave Desert of California. Very little rain (geological records
>>and fossil lakes show this); certainly no significant flash
>>flooding. Then erect signs, in many languages, and with
>>skull-and-crossbones, saying: "This area is poisoned." Even the
>>most bizarre devolution-to-savagery scenarios are unlikely to have
>>wandering savages in the waterless Mojave trying to scavenge stuff
>>out of sealed drums marked with skulls and crossbones!
>
> I've never really understood why we don't just put this stuff
>in some *really* tough polycarbonate containers aboard "mature"
>technology rockets and launch it into the biggest heat source in the
>solar system.
>
> I realize that there is a lot of it, but still.
This is a very old idea, rejected for good cause many, many years ago.
Need I elaborate?
--Tim May
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