cargo for mass produced EELV's

(or kill yucca mountain)

$40 billion and more will be spent by DOE and the commercial nuclear
power industry to try to make nuclear waste to "go away"
hahaha well some have suggested a solar disposel for this stuff.the
sun is an object that requires a great deal of energy to get to.I have
always thought that a solar system escape orbit would easer but what a
waste. make this nuclear waste work for you?.recycle it into fuel but
not for use on earth.the $40 billion that will be used at yaccu
mountian could pay for thousands of EELV's.but why not dispose of this
"waste in the form of RTG's and other nuclear power devices.science
could come for the ride. settle on a design say cassine or a bit
smaller like voyager and build a great many of them.
bid out the work in 20 spacecraft lots.Two orbiters each jupiter,
saturn.uranus and neptune would take up to half of this first
production lot.
$2 billion per year from the DOE budget and say $ 800 million a year
added to the existing NASA planetary exploration budgett would allow
for mass prodution of EELV and science instruments.this added to the
air force and NASA purchases of EELV would bring down the cost by a
order of magnatude.
I have read somewhere that there is 40,00 tons of commercial waste
and an equal amount of weapons grade stuff around the world how long
would it take to work our way through this!?
and how many rtg's and or apace craft would this be?
the DOE now has about $20 billion in a rate payer paid fund for waste
disposal.
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"steve rappolee" wrote in message
om...
(or kill yucca mountain)

$40 billion and more will be spent by DOE and the commercial nuclear
power industry to try to make nuclear waste to "go away"
hahaha well some have suggested a solar disposel for this stuff.the
sun is an object that requires a great deal of energy to get to.I have
always thought that a solar system escape orbit would easer but what a
waste. make this nuclear waste work for you?.recycle it into fuel but
not for use on earth.the $40 billion that will be used at yaccu
mountian could pay for thousands of EELV's.but why not dispose of this
"waste in the form of RTG's and other nuclear power devices.science

If something is good quality fuel, why not use it on Earth. If it is poor
quality fuel, the space industry probably won't want it either. Some
nuclear waste is stuff that has come in contact with nuclear fuel. Your
suggestion doesn't deal with that stuff. If someone nukes the US, we'll
have a lot of radioactive dirt to get rid of, which is a rather difficult
task.

"Mike Rhino" wrote in message ...
"steve rappolee" wrote in message
om...
(or kill yucca mountain)

$40 billion and more will be spent by DOE and the commercial nuclear
power industry to try to make nuclear waste to "go away"
hahaha well some have suggested a solar disposel for this stuff.the
sun is an object that requires a great deal of energy to get to.I have
always thought that a solar system escape orbit would easer but what a
waste. make this nuclear waste work for you?.recycle it into fuel but
not for use on earth.the $40 billion that will be used at yaccu
mountian could pay for thousands of EELV's.but why not dispose of this
"waste in the form of RTG's and other nuclear power devices.science

If something is good quality fuel, why not use it on Earth. If it is poor
quality fuel, the space industry probably won't want it either. Some
nuclear waste is stuff that has come in contact with nuclear fuel. Your
suggestion doesn't deal with that stuff. If someone nukes the US, we'll
have a lot of radioactive dirt to get rid of, which is a rather difficult
task.

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this is why in the UK and france and japan you reprocess the
waste.the plutonium and uranium is reused as fuel or as a source for
thr RTG.s