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<title>
Nuclear Waste Disposal In Space Developed
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service, May 11, 1992
Arms Control: Nuclear Waste Disposal in Space Developed
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<p>[Video report by Ye. Sedova; from the "Novosti" newscast. Moscow
Teleradiokompaniya Ostankino Television First Program Network in
Russian 2000 GMT 7 May 92]
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<p> [Text] [Sedova over video of an object floating in space] In
an effort to rid the Earth of dangerous nuclear waste, our
defense enterprise specialists have elaborated a program for the
disposal of radioactive waste in space. The program is called
"Shans" ["Chance"]. Our scientists have submitted several
options. For example, nuclear power station waste could be
dispatched on a powerful craft beyond the Solar System, or
drowned in the gaseous atmosphere of Jupiter or Saturn, or sent
directly to the Sun, or burned up with a laser beam somewhere
far away in space.
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<p> The authors of the "Chance" program are intending to submit
it to the United Nations. Let the world community decide. In any
event, the authors say, our country could not implement the
program single-handed. To dispatch just one tonne of waste into
space would cost up to $250 million. Special, new types of
carrier rockets are also needed, designed specifically for this
purpose.
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<p> And so all that needs to be done is to allocate some funds.
If this happens, the first experiments, under the "Chance"
program could take place already during the current year. [video
shows rocket launches interspersed with computer graphics of
objects floating in space and photographs of Jupiter, Saturn,
and the Earth]
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