Re:The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well fire in...
by girvo on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @11:13PM
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Honestly, I'd rather deal with nuclear waste than I would what we're currently doing to our environment.
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Re:The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well fire in...
by danwiding on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @11:51PM
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A modest proposal would be to slowly depopulate Micronesia and store all our radioactive waste there (we already tested nukes there once anyway). It's either that or let the ocean reclaim the islands over the next 100 years. So we might as well get some cheap energy out of the deal.
Re:The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well fire in...
by the_solution on Monday October 06, 2014 @09:11AM
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Taking care of radioactive waste for thousands of years requires energy. How do you propose we generate that energy?
Re:The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well fire in...
by kalms on Thursday October 02, 2014 @05:49AM
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Fire that crap into the sun and be done with it.
Re:The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well fire in...
by chadgeidel on Thursday October 02, 2014 @02:25PM
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You are getting downvoted without explanation here. It's a reasonable thought except for a few things. First of which is our space launch and delivery systems aren't 100% reliable. Even one failure means nuclear debris spread over a wide distance - something that would be very difficult to recover from.
I couldn't find a good document from a quick googling, but this was high on the list: http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/log2013.html 81 launches and 3 failures. I don't particularly like those odds.
Re:The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well fire in...
by noahhs on Friday October 03, 2014 @10:42AM
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Aside from safety, there's another insurmountable obstacle to space disposal: cost. You may not appreciate just how much spent fuel there is. I did the math once. Launch cost per pound, times number of pounds of waste, came out to over $1 trillion. Orders of magnitude away from feasibility, even with advancements in launch technology.