WheThrow the Nuclear Waste

--- In ssi_list@... Brian Dunbar
> 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 because the Mass Driver shoot from Alaska to South, over the
Pacific Ocean.
Each brick of Soil mixed with radiactive materials weight 1 Kg.
Is shooted over the Pacific Ocean and the only danger is that a
blackout of energy in the middle of a shoot can abort the shoot of
ONE Brick. The probabilities of damage a boat in Haway is less than
die under a lightning in Kansas.

> 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.

The nuclear waste has two possible ends:
- Bury it in the underground, whit the danger that a earthquake can
destroy the bunker and the radiation contaminate subterranean waters
during the next 10.000 years, or...
- Launch into space, not in orbit around the Earth!, but long away
to the limits of solar system. The bricks, under the Light of the
Sun, transforms in dust and, pushed by Solar Wind, travel to the
border of Solar System, without going near the planets.
Arrive at 10000 years and by then will have lost its radioactivity.

What's better?

> 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.

The cost of underground the nuclear waste is very expensive in the
begining of building and in the maintenance every year.
The Cost of a Mass-Driver (when the problem with the inertia of
magnetic fields have solve) will be expensive (less than one bunker,
I thing) but after the mass-driver was build, each launch will be
very cheap.

> 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.

This is politics, and I don't believe in politics.

Pleased to talking to you.
Juan Polaino
http://www.maslibertad.com