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To: RetiredNow who wrote (365052)1/2/2008 1:06:54 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574097
 
You have to price the "launching the waste into the sun" into the cost of the nuclear energy. I'd just guess it would be prohibitively expensive. I've always wondered why we don't just dump it into deep ocean trenches.




Where it would get sucked down into the earth.



To: RetiredNow who wrote (365052)1/2/2008 1:22:40 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574097
 
"If space launches become more affordable, it might be the best thing to just launch our longterm persistent waste into the sun or to Venus"

There is a SF story called "The Girl in Del Rey Crater". The idea there was a crater on the Moon was picked to dispose of nuclear waste by hard impact into the crater. That way, as technology progressed, it would be possible to salvage the waste material which would have some value.


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