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$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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Good idea - the Greens will cry blue murder, though ...
-- memento mori
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yeah!
we can not reprocess it,it is dangerous(the fuel).
we can not reprocess it, it might fall into bad peoples hands.
launching this is bad bad bad.
still removing this stuff from the biosphere is an idea.if it is ever reused again it would be a space faring civilazation discovering the stuff orbiting the outer planets.
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