Good point. Security is just as big an issue as the radioactivity. Who is going to guard all of these subduction zones filled with pellitized nuclear waste? It's basically free to whoever can unbury it from it's watery crypt. Just an innocent fishing boat passing by? Think again. Are we really going to be able to guard an ocean site from above for 30 years or more? Too impractical. Best to re-use the waste in more efficient burn-all retro-fitted reactors (we aren't likely to see too many new reactors in the U.S). And in the meantime, keep the waste underground.
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You must be talking about the "Nuke Train" that was rollin' through Nevada & California all loaded up with nuc-waste sent on its merry way through the most rikety high mountain tracks imaginable only days after a major storm. Just put your blinders on and GO!
This is from a NASA press release:
"The Shuttle Endeavour lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center this afternoon, carrying a multi-national crew and a complex Canadian-built robotic arm to the International Space Station (ISS).
Commander Kent Rominger, Pilot Jeff Ashby and Mission Specialists Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, John Phillips, Scott Parazynski, Umberto Guidoni of the European Space Agency and Yuri Lonchakov of Rosaviakosmos blasted off on time from Launch Pad 39-A at 1:41 p.m. Central time as the ISS sailed over the Indian Ocean south of India. Aboard the station, Expedition Two Commander Yury Usachev and Flight Engineers Jim Voss and Susan Helms were told of Endeavour's launch as it lifted off from the pad. Approximately 20 minutes later, the three crew members took a few minutes out from routine maintenance work and preparations for Endeavour's arrival to watch a video feed of the launch uplinked to them by ISS flight controllers in Houston through the station's KU-band communications system."
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Good point. Security is just as big an issue as the radioactivity. Who is going to guard all of these subduction zones filled with pellitized nuclear waste? It's basically free to whoever can unbury it from it's watery crypt. Just an innocent fishing boat passing by? Think again. Are we really going to be able to guard an ocean site from above for 30 years or more? Too impractical. Best to re-use the waste in more efficient burn-all retro-fitted reactors (we aren't likely to see too many new reactors in the U.S). And in the meantime, keep the waste underground.
You must be talking about the "Nuke Train" that was rollin' through Nevada & California all loaded up with nuc-waste sent on its merry way through the most rikety high mountain tracks imaginable only days after a major storm. Just put your blinders on and GO!
This is from a NASA press release: "The Shuttle Endeavour lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center this afternoon, carrying a multi-national crew and a complex Canadian-built robotic arm to the International Space Station (ISS). Commander Kent Rominger, Pilot Jeff Ashby and Mission Specialists Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, John Phillips, Scott Parazynski, Umberto Guidoni of the European Space Agency and Yuri Lonchakov of Rosaviakosmos blasted off on time from Launch Pad 39-A at 1:41 p.m. Central time as the ISS sailed over the Indian Ocean south of India. Aboard the station, Expedition Two Commander Yury Usachev and Flight Engineers Jim Voss and Susan Helms were told of Endeavour's launch as it lifted off from the pad. Approximately 20 minutes later, the three crew members took a few minutes out from routine maintenance work and preparations for Endeavour's arrival to watch a video feed of the launch uplinked to them by ISS flight controllers in Houston through the station's KU-band communications system." To get space shuttle updates via e-mail (like you have anything better to do?) follow these directions... ***** NASA Johnson Space Center Mission Status Reports and other information are available automatically by sending an Internet electronic mail message to majordomo@listserver.jsc.nasa.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line) users should type "subscribe hsfnews" (no quotes). This will add the email address that sent the subscibe message to the news release distribution list. The system will reply with a confirmation via E-mail of each subscription. Once you have subscribed you will receive future news releases via e-mail.