Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Acuff@RUTGERS.ARPA From: Acuff@RUTGERS.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Nuclear Waste Message-ID: <12398@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 18:32:34 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12398 Posted: Fri Oct 7 18:32:34 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Oct-83 01:16:10 EDT Lines: 12 From: Rich Acuff at Ohio State I don't know much about the details of this, but here is an idea I've been kicking around for a little while: Given a cheap, efficient method of getting into space (ie. shuttle, space station, perhaps ion-drive), why couldn't the waste be taken up and dropped into the biggest pile of nuclear waste in the solar system--the sun? Of course, there would be lots of problems, but given the alternatives, it might be cost-effective... -- Rich