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From: mwe@astrovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Nuclear Waste
Message-ID: <54@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 13:46:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 13 13:46:57 1983
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The problem with space disposal is the risk involved.
If you could be 100% sure of getting the waste into the sun, then
the problem would be solved completely. Unfortunately, with any
currently available ( or available for the forseeable future) space
vehicle is that the reliability, while very high, is not 100%.
And because the potential danger of scattering the waste throughout the
atmosphere as the result of a crash or explosion on launch or something
is many orders of magnitude greater than the danger of small leaks in
underground containment vessels, the idea turns out to be, on average,
more dangerous.
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