X-Message-Number: 20240 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 08:52:50 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #20233 - #20239 Hi everyone! 1. As for nuclear power and throwing the wastes into the Sun, I specifically said that we'd have to wait until we had better launching facilities. I do not see this as all that hard: the waste must be shielded in a way which would survive a crash of the space cargo. Such things are already shipped in small volume by air. 2. As for reprocessing the waste to make useful radioactive elements, that too is already done. The claim that it is so radioactive that even the smallest leakage would cause problems seems unlikely on its face. If any questioner can give more precise figures and a reference for them, I will accept it. And here we have cryonicists claiming that future technology won't be able to solve this particular problem! The worst possibility here is that again, we'd have to store it for a while, but hardly for even 1000 years. Best wishes and long long life for all. Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20240