CDR: Re: Nuclear waste

petro petro at bounty.org
Sat Oct 21 21:02:02 PDT 2000


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.
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