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Old February 26th 04, 03:51 AM
steve rappolee
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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 wepons 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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Old February 28th 04, 08:45 PM
Henry Spencer
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In article ,
steve rappolee wrote:
...but why not dispose of this
"waste in the form of RTG's and other nuclear power devices...


Unfortunately, the vast majority of it is not suitable for that purpose --
too short a half-life, too long a half-life, too much gamma-ray emission,
or not available in a durable solid form tolerant of high temperatures.
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