[AFreeBird]

If this works, then that would go a long way towards silencing the anti-nuke crowds, and we could again start building power plants to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

[AFreeBird]

Saw this over on /. thought I'd ping for comment.

[Mr. Jazzy]

It almost sounds too good to be true.

You basically just kill the radioactivity by turning the waste into really cold ice cubes. After all, there really is no such thing as "cold" per se, just heat in varying quantities. Cool the waste down for a period of time, allow it to thaw and you could use it to pave roads.

[Steely Tom]

So where does the energy go?

[satchmodog9]

I will read the article later. I have a better idea regardless. Get a big butter knife and spread it on the middle east.

[BlazingArizona]

Why do we want to get rid of it, anyway? Nuclear "waste' is a resource, not a liability. Uranium and plutonium, the elements that give the stuff its long life, can be separated and fed back to reactors to create more energy. Japan and France already recycle their waste in this way; the only reason we don't is that the process is still expensive. Since we have plenty of raw uranium and arid land, it makes more sense for us to store waste ion the desert for the next hundred ears or so until recycling gets cheap.

This is a far better ultimate solution than those daffy schemes for shooting waste into the Sun.

[Young Werther]

NASA has tested a hypervelocity gun which could be scaled to launch nuclear waste material encased in lead ingots. Fire the ingots into a space on a retrograde trajectory and they would slow down in relation to the Earth's orbit They would fall into the Sun and hopefully wouldn't stoke the solar furnace and cause more global warming!

Gun Laying would be necessary to insure we don't hit Venus or Mercury.

[timer]

Problem of nuc-waste was solved long ago, but it makes the hot fusion community look bad, that's why the hatred and malice towards Cold Fusion/LENR, emanating from MIT/Charles Vest(GWB's science advisor)and their DOE. Stan Gleason in cincinnati invented, in the corner of a welding shop, a process that transmutates thorium to copper and titanium isotopes in 3 hours : a zirconium pipe 3" in diameter, 4 " long, with end caps. Central stainless steel rod with stainless steel disc at middle. 3KWH input. 90%nitric acid, 10% thorium. In 3 hours 90% of the thorium is gone, and the detrius at the bottom shows VISIBLE copper flakes. This is but one of many CF techniques, but you'll never hear about it in the media controlled by uknowwho.

[SuziQ]

Have you heard of this?

[satchmodog9]

After finally reading the article, I am now convinced the anti nuke crowd is behind the objections. If it is just in the research stage, why downplay the idea?