Nuclear 'Asteroids' Due In A Few Hundred Years

easyCoder writes "In this space.com article, it mentions a RORSAT satellite that has been leaking radioactive coolant, leaving little droplets of it in orbit around our planet. However, further down, it also mentions this, quoted here for maximum impact: 'After a RORSATs tour-of-duty was over, the reactor's fuel core was shot high above Earth into a "disposal orbit." Once at that altitude the power supply unit would take several hundred years before it reentered the Earth's atmosphere.' Wow. So ... our great-grandchildren can expect a lovely day, partly cloudy with the occasional nuclear reactor plummeting down from outer space."

Comments

Re:Futurama

[mriker]

Parent got modded up? Man, they're giving those points out like candy these days!

Re: Street Cleaners

[Oligonicella]

Don't be stupid. Several hundred years from now it will be like the street sweepers of today. Get a grip and drop the hissy fit.

Re:This SHOULD NOT be a problem.

[VivianC]

If those little punks are incapable of safely retrieving these reactors in the next hundred or so years, the little slackers deserve what they get.

Maybe it can be defined as a weapon of mass destruction and we can invade. Kinda shines a new light on GW's sudden interest in space travel.