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Bill Gates is a nuclear kind of guy
dogmush:
--- Quote from: MillCreek on March 01, 2021, 09:54:23 AM ---^^^And we still need to come with a permanent waste repository.
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We send the rest of our trash to China for disposal, I'm not sure why this should be any different.
MechAg94:
--- Quote from: grampster on March 01, 2021, 10:05:21 AM ---Just need to get rid of Jimmy Carter's law that prohibits recycling of nuclear waste. Dixie Lee Ray had the best idea about getting rid of nuclear waste. encase it in lead, encase that in very thick glass, put that in a rocket and drive it a mile into the bottomlands of the deep ocean.
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If you are going to put it in a rocket, why not go ahead and put it on the moon or launch it into the sun?
AJ Dual:
--- Quote from: MechAg94 on March 01, 2021, 02:17:19 PM ---If you are going to put it in a rocket, why not go ahead and put it on the moon or launch it into the sun?
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It's just wasteful, and would be prohibitively expensive of course. (Sending things into the sun is actually harder than sending things into the outer solar system...)
Besides, once-used nuclear fuel is still like 95% potent, which is why reprocessing is so important.
grampster:
Dixie Lee Ray was Governor of Washington, a professor in Washington state with a PhD in biology, was quite in touch with marine biology. She was in charge of the AEC for a time. The reason she recommended the ocean is because of the extremely vast amounts of water in the oceans VS the rather small % of nuclear waste. + the fact that the glass encasement would not degenerate for eons and if any nuclear waste were to escape, would have zilch of any effect after being disbursed by the vast amount of oceanic water...to say nothing it would be maybe a half mile or so in the mud at the bottom of the abyss.
She wrote a book that discusses this along with a number of other things debunking a number of Green Weenie myths. Trashing the Planet
MechAg94:
--- Quote from: AJ Dual on March 01, 2021, 02:48:10 PM ---It's just wasteful, and would be prohibitively expensive of course. (Sending things into the sun is actually harder than sending things into the outer solar system...)
Besides, once-used nuclear fuel is still like 95% potent, which is why reprocessing is so important.
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There really isn't that much of it. I can't remember how much money they were proposing to spend making the permanent storage location, but it didn't sound cheap.
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