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- From: sreardon@bradley.bradley.edu (Steven Reardon)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Nuclear waste to Venus?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.232540.26441@bradley.bradley.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 23:25:40 GMT
- Article-I.D.: bradley.1992Nov6.232540.26441
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- In <BxAqvJ.Ftp.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
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- >-HS>Venus, you might as well just fly it *into* Venus. It's not as if Venus
- >-HS>is good for anything else. (Although one would want to do rather more
- >-HS>thorough studies of Venus before starting to use it as a dump...)
-
- >-Why do that? Conceivably Venusian terraforming could be done and now
- >-you've contaminated it with radioactives. If dumping is the solution
- >-dump on an airless body.
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- >Without working too hard at the math, I strongly suspect that cleaning up
- >a few million tons of high-level radioactive waste would add far less than
- >a thousandth of a percent to the cost of terraforming Venus. With that kind
- >of cost ratio, it would be an insignificant impediment to terraforming.
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- >This is not to say I favor the idea - I think the nuclear waste should be
- >kept on the Earth.
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- Say, if you're gonna get it going fast enough to escape Earth, why not just
- aim it at the sun? It would disintigrate long before it got there.
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- Just my 2 hunks of crust worth,
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- Steve
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