CDR: Re: Nuclear waste

[Tim May]

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?


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