CDR: Re: Nuclear waste
Jim Choate
ravage at ssz.com
Mon Oct 23 13:07:50 PDT 2000
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, David Honig wrote:
> At 08:14 AM 10/23/00 -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
> >(3) The small amount of stuff that really *is* dangerous is dangerous
> >enough that it would be too risky putting it in a rocket. What is the
> >success rate of unmanned launches? About 19/20?
>
> Those fsckers in NASA have lobbed a few kilos of very hot (literally)
> isotopes as thermoelectric power sources; they even played gravity-ball
> with one of them (Cassini IIRC) using Earth as the reflector. Wasn't
> that special of them?
>
> "We're from the government, and, well, you can't stop us, so bugger off."
Oh, bullshit. The containment vessel for Cassini was more than sufficient
had their been a cato.
As to Ken's question, the success is approaching 80-90% AFTER the initial
burn-in of the design. That usualy takes 2-5 flights depending on the
pedigree of the particular bird you're talking about.
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