Yucca Mountain, Open For Business

John Galt writes: "It seems the Feds have finally decided that Nevada will host the government's nuclear waste repository." The Yucca Mountain project has been in the works for a while. Here is a cutaway diagram.

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Mass Drivin'

[Vidmaster_Steve]

Actually, an idea that I had proposed (and had shot down by those who called in "unpractical." bastards) was, instead of building a massive waste dump 90 miles north of Stenchburg (aka cruddy Vegas) we construct an immense mass driver in the Great Smoky Valley, which is smack dab in the center of the Greatest State in the Union (Nevada). This mass driver would have to be approxamatley 90 miles long and slowly arc upward to a height of two miles. Instead of burying the waste in the ground, where it could possibly leak, or even worse, be stumbled across by an archeological team in a future that has long forgotten about us.

This immense mass driver could hurl ten thousand (10,000g) gallon drums of nuclear waste into a rapidly-decaying solar orbit. Just dunk the stuff into the sun. This immense project would create thousands of jobs (construction, operation and maintenance), as well as being a stepping stone on the high, jagged cliff face that is the complete eradication of our dependance on fossil fuels.

But nay, the (Californicated) local government (fuck you Douglas County) thought that it would be decidedly too costly and was shot down before even making it to state assembly. I don't see how it could be though. Sure, it would take about four nuke plants on its own to operate, but the costs would be essentially negated by the charge placed upon each ten thousand gallon drum of waste. And not to mention the added tourist dollars. I mean, who in their right mind WOULDN'T want to see that thing fired? Clouds would part and thunder would roll as the drums travel at twenty-five times the speed of sound...
Imagine the casino revenue, brothel revenue, et cetera. We were sitting on (another) gold mine there people. But they wanted to go with the lame, unambitious, non-dramatic way of eliminating a major stumbling block for the widestream acceptance of nuclear power...

Also, it could be used to liquefy those that pronounce The Great State's second A incorrectly. Listen here people, it's like "can" not "soft." Fuck, if it were like "soft" it'd be spelled Nevawda, you fucking savages.

Not a bad solution

[tRoll with Butter]

..considering the limited options the government had to choose between.

Let's face it, we all know the best way to dispose of something is to flush it down the toilet. Hell, it works for fish - it should work for nuclear waste too! Just a quick flush later, and it should be on its way to a nuclear waste treatment plant. Unfortunately, in 1992, congress shot themselves in the foot by limiting the volume of flush water to 1.6 gallons (6.08 liters, to the rest of the world) per flush. As anyone who has tried to flush the end result of a recent mexican buffet knows, this isn't even enough water to flush the average feces log, let alone nuclear waste!

Clearly, flushing down the toilet is still a good solution, so I propose the government take a long hard look at the new pressure assisted toilets available today, which make the best use of the 1.6 gallons available to them by using the line pressure to increase the velocity of the flush. I've had the pleasure of trying one of these toilets out for myself and I have yet to find anything this toilet cannot flush. The sheer sucking power is nothing short of breathtaking. I'm sure this is our solution to nuclear waste disposal.