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Trump administration secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from SC to NV - GMDino - 01-31-2019 Besides the issues in the article this raises the question of what DO we do with the waste? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/31/doe-plutonium-nevada/2730361002/ Quote:The U.S. Department of Energy has disclosed that it already shipped one-half metric ton of weapons-grade plutonium to a site in Nevada. RE: Trump administration secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from SC to NV - Nately120 - 01-31-2019 Dump the waste somewhere in America. It's not like anyone fought and died to protect this country. RE: Trump administration secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from SC to NV - Belsnickel - 01-31-2019 (01-31-2019, 02:18 PM)GMDino Wrote: Besides the issues in the article this raises the question of what DO we do with the waste? https://www.nrc.gov/waste.html Tl;dr: low-level waste (contaminated material) is stored in a couple of different facilities around the country, and high-level waste (fuel rods and what not) have to be kept at the reactor sites because we don't have anywhere to store them. RE: Trump administration secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from SC to NV - michaelsean - 01-31-2019 Shoot it way out of the atmosphere, then blow it up so there isn't any space junk out there. Or can it still come back to earth? Or put it on a rocket all the way to Venus. Nobody is colonizing that hell hole. RE: Trump administration secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from SC to NV - Belsnickel - 01-31-2019 (01-31-2019, 02:49 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Shoot it way out of the atmosphere, then blow it up so there isn't any space junk out there. Or can it still come back to earth? Or put it on a rocket all the way to Venus. Nobody is colonizing that hell hole. What if the rocket they put it on explodes on the launch pad or in the atmosphere? Space launches still aren't perfect, and I think that risk of putting radioactive material into the air is what prevents that from happening. RE: Trump administration secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from SC to NV - michaelsean - 01-31-2019 (01-31-2019, 02:55 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: What if the rocket they put it on explodes on the launch pad or in the atmosphere? Space launches still aren't perfect, and I think that risk of putting radioactive material into the air is what prevents that from happening. That's a good point. On the plus side most of them are launched from Florida so...... RE: Trump administration secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from SC to NV - Belsnickel - 01-31-2019 (01-31-2019, 02:56 PM)michaelsean Wrote: That's a good point. On the plus side most of them are launched from Florida so...... Yeah...not as many as you'd think. Also, an atmospheric detonation could cause wide-reaching effects. RE: Trump administration secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from SC to NV - michaelsean - 01-31-2019 (01-31-2019, 03:08 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Yeah...not as many as you'd think. It doesn't really matter if most rockets are launched out of Florida. These can be. Thinking I pretty much solved this problem. It's just details now. Just the thing you bureaucrats live for. RE: Trump administration secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from SC to NV - BengalHawk62 - 01-31-2019 Just go find the deepest parts of the ocean and drop it in there. Wash your hands free of it, and turn around and go home. easy peasy. (hint- there might be a small smidgen of sarcasm included in this message) RE: Trump administration secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from SC to NV - Yojimbo - 01-31-2019 (01-31-2019, 02:49 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Shoot it way out of the atmosphere, then blow it up so there isn't any space junk out there. Or can it still come back to earth? Or put it on a rocket all the way to Venus. Nobody is colonizing that hell hole. Actually... https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/how-to-colonize-venus I’m in favor of exploring using bacteria that eats plutonium/uranium, for disposing of waste. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431211-300-radiationeating-bacteria-could-make-nuclear-waste-safer/ RE: Trump administration secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from SC to NV - bfine32 - 01-31-2019 Sprinkle it along the Southern Boarder. 2 birds/one stone RE: Trump administration secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from SC to NV - BmorePat87 - 01-31-2019 (01-31-2019, 07:19 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Sprinkle it along the Southern Boarder. ![]() (01-31-2019, 03:35 PM)BengalHawk62 Wrote: Just go find the deepest parts of the ocean and drop it in there. Wash your hands free of it, and turn around and go home. ![]() RE: Trump administration secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from SC to NV - michaelsean - 01-31-2019 (01-31-2019, 07:16 PM)Yojimbo Wrote: Actually... I ain’t living in no blimp. And I’m kinda scared of bacteria that eat radiation for a snack. RE: Trump administration secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from SC to NV - Yojimbo - 01-31-2019 (01-31-2019, 08:42 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I ain’t living in no blimp. And I’m kinda scared of bacteria that eat radiation for a snack. C’mon it would be just like the Jetsons! RE: Trump administration secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from SC to NV - TheLeonardLeap - 01-31-2019 This is going to continue to be a problem until we develop a Space Elevator, or some other non-combustable way to launch it into space on a course for the sun. That said, nobody seems to be asking what is going to happen to the huge amount of dead batteries from cars and all that in a decade or so. That shit is toxic too. We have just been tossing batteries in landfills for decades as far as Cs, Ds, AAs, etc go. |