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Bye Bye, Rigs
Topic Started: Jul 11 2010, 08:13 AM (961 Views)
Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
KlavierBauer
Jul 14 2010, 07:45 AM
I don't see why we don't simply send it to space and hurl it towards the sun...
Because we can't get over the "what-if" scenario of the rocket ship failing in mid flight and the radioactive payload falls back down to, say, your backyard.
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KlavierBauer
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HOLY CARP!!!
Ax: Space elevators.
"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper
"He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple

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big al
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Jul 13 2010, 06:16 PM
One colleague of mine has suggested that we grind the waste up into a fine powder and dust the world with it (he is presuming it would be spread over a large enough area, that it would not be ditinguishable from natural background raiation measurements). After all, he points out, we are just putting it back where it came from.
The problem with that is we're not putting back what we dug up. We've converted it from relatively low level, long lived radioactive elements/isotopes to many more short lived but much more radioactive elements/isotopes.

Big Al
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