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

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