X-Message-Number: 20254
From: "Lee Corbin" <>
Subject: RE: Nuclear energy
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 02:30:49 -0700

Thomas Donaldson writes

> There seems to be a unified view that the pollution of nuclear
> power will stay with us for a long time. That is, thousands of
> years.  At least 2 ways to deal with that problem in far less
> than 1000 years can be suggested:
> 
> 1. Throw the waste into the Sun.
> 
> 2. Process it into useful elements

Ocean dumping is presently done with some wastes:  they're
placed in a large massive bullet-shaped vessel, and upon
colliding with the sea bottom immerse themselves many
meters into the sea bed.  The area chosen can have two
appealing traits:  (1) sediment is continually being
laid down, so that the vessels containing the nuclear
waste become buried even deeper over time  (2) the
area lies in a region undergoing geologic subduction.

Thus, the nuclear wastes won't be causing any problems
for millions of years, by which time, of course, they'll
have ceased to be radioactive anyway.

Lee Corbin

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