WheThrow the Nuclear Waste

>
> If we want to liberate of the Nuclear Waste, we can shoot it to the
> space with a mass driver.
>
(snip)
>
> I just have read the book /The Moon is a Harsh Mistress/, of *Robert A.
> Heinlein*, where he write about Mass Drivers for the transportation of
> PERSONS and Goods to the Moon.
>
> Wath do you thing about this?

I think 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' is a good story.

I think that anyone who attempts to shoot nuclear waste into orbit is
going to need to hire a lot of expensive lawyers. And at that they
might be litigated out of existence, leaving only a smoky crater in the
ground where their offices used to be.

It's not that the idea doesn't make sense so much as that people who are
rabidly anti-nuclear anything are really pesky and will litigate
endlessly to stop you.

That's if it's a private business, and leaving aside the matter of 'is
there enough' waste to make such a solution cost effective.

If we try to make this a government operation it will never get off the
ground. The same anti-nuclear people will pester, bully and champion
with their legislators and dry up funding before the first study is out
the door.

Brian Dunbar

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