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To: RC one

Use unmanned shuttles to ferry loads to a space station and then send a big barge type shipload to the SUN. Price for disposal should be deposited before commissioning of reactor or military use.

Can I have my check now please?


32 posted on 02/07/2010 5:49:38 AM PST by plenipotentiary (Obama was a BRITISH SUBJECT at birth, passed to him via Pops, can't be NBC)
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To: plenipotentiary

You aren’t the first person to suggest that. Problem is, it takes a lot of rocket fuel to lift a little weight into outer space. The cost of doing this would quickly make nuclear energy a highly unprofitable (economy wrecking) enterprise. Even if you solve that problem, there’s the risk of a shuttle full of nuclear waste exploding in the upper atmosphere. That doesn’t sound like a good thing, does it? Considering the tonnage of waste we’re talking about, there would be so many missions involved that the risk of a catastrophe is more of “when” isssue than a “what if” issue. Oh, and we can’t even manage to put a man on the moon again let alone put thousands of tons of nuclear waste on the surface of the sun. Long story short, no check for you.


34 posted on 02/07/2010 6:16:52 PM PST by RC one (WHAT!!!!)
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