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- Trekhawk, on 11/07/2008, -1/+48Recycling the "waste" would be a better option, but if we need to dump it, I approve on big pile in the middle of the desert.
- spaceman84, on 11/07/2008, -0/+36This is why we need to re-enrich our spent nuclear fuel the same way just about every other country does with their nuclear energy infrastructure.
- Gauthic, on 11/07/2008, -0/+28How about Uranus?
*snicker* - directedition, on 11/07/2008, -1/+28Wait a minute, isn't that the whole point of Yucca Mountain? To keep all the waste in one safe and remote location? Why build a second when we haven't even started to use the first?
- Petrarch1603, on 11/07/2008, -0/+16yeah great idea, lets take tons of nuclear waste and attach thousands of liters of pure unadulterated rocket fuel to it and launch it 9 times the speed of a bullet.
- JJ2K1, on 11/07/2008, -0/+14Hi thar, I live in Vegas too. Apparently you don't know the roads in Nevada that well. There are many other routes to Yucca mountain that you can transport to that won't go anywhere near Vegas.
- JanK1, on 11/07/2008, -0/+12That's just lunacy!
/copied from someone else
/end honesty - MiGs2, on 11/07/2008, -0/+12The correct saying is. "First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price? Only, this one can be kept secret."
Wanna take a ride? - fadeddragon, on 11/07/2008, -1/+12No, you can process it so you can still use it for nuclear energy.
- lovek, on 11/07/2008, -1/+10or shoot it at the Sun?
- xrisnothing, on 11/07/2008, -0/+9I think that's what he meant by dumping it in the desert.
- LlamaRiot, on 11/07/2008, -2/+11we only need one new jersey
- pogfreak, on 11/07/2008, -1/+10I'm so glad we have people like you to make that call for us.
- atbnet, on 11/07/2008, -1/+9Why settle with one when you can build two at tax payer expense?
- SemiSarcastic, on 11/07/2008, -3/+10Can't we use the moon instead?
- elnerdo, on 11/07/2008, -0/+7No, but realistically we can reuse it until it's not so dangerous anymore, solving the problem of limited uranium and the problem of nuclear waste in one fell swoop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing - centran, on 11/07/2008, -0/+6Um.... I thought when they built the storage space in Yucca Mountain that is was decided there would be enough storage room for several hundred years?
- Hetman, on 11/07/2008, -0/+6This problem effects more than just the people in Vegas. And experts in the field of nuclear wast storage chose Yuccan mountains because it is one of the most stable geological places in the U.S. Therefor it is the safest place to store it. And unfortunatly nuclear was is going to have to be shipped through more than just one city. So vegas is not the only one who is going to have to deal with shipments of nuclear waste being drove through their city.
- artofstealing, on 11/07/2008, -0/+6rockets have a tendency to blow up every once in a while on their way up. now can you imagine flaming radioactive materials raining down on the earth?
- YoctoYotta, on 11/08/2008, -0/+6The containers (nuclear flasks) that the nuclear waste is carried in are virtually indestructible. Here's a couple of videos of train and truck crash tests done in 1984 and beyond that involved hurtling said vehicles upward of 100 miles an hour directly into the container, or smashing the container into walls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHtRZ_k0s7M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mHtOW-OBO4
Granted, all it takes is one freak failure to ***** some ***** up, but the risk versus reward is arguably worthwhile and strict construction guidelines should avoid faulty containers ever making it into production. That said, I live nowhere near a nuclear storage site and can respect everyone's uneasiness towards the waste's proximity to their homes. - Finalreminder, on 11/07/2008, -0/+6Caldicott? Does she have qualifications in Physics, Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Engineering, Chemical engineering, Waste management?
No, she doesn't, she's a medical doctor specialising in paediatrics.
As an IT Engineer I would be foolish to take advice from her on IT. So why in Gods name should I listen to a word she says on something as complex as the Nuclear industry?
She's an armchair expert with a big mouth - The Internet is full of them. - inactive, on 11/07/2008, -0/+5Moonbase Alpha is my suggestion :)
- KingHarvest00, on 11/07/2008, -1/+6drop it in a volcano
- Enigmocracy, on 11/07/2008, -0/+5IIRC, there is one, but we don't use it.
- plainOldFool, on 11/07/2008, -0/+5He means waste from nuclear power plants, not things like radioactive iodine.
The idea is that you can reprocess the waste over and over again for nuclear fuel. However, the ultimate result is highly enriched, weapons grade uranium. - HonestAbe, on 11/07/2008, -0/+5Because idiot protesters won't allow the first to be used?
- MyEuphoria, on 11/07/2008, -3/+8From the title... "One Nuclear Dump is Enough"
One is too many. We need a way to recycle this waste. - GoatMonkey2112, on 11/07/2008, -1/+5According to google maps it is a 416 mile drive from Yucca Mountain to Las Vegas. Probably closer in a straight line, but still it's not exactly "right next to it".
- JJ2K1, on 11/07/2008, -0/+4@thallium: No kidding. There was even a proposal that would have reduced property taxes for all Nevadans as a bargaining chip but our stupid politicians and environmentalists turned it down. So now instead of getting a benefit from it for us all, they are still going to open Yucca Mountain and we get nothing in return. Decades of research and building, and billions of dollars spent, and it amazes me how stupid people are to think that they will not open it.
- pathouston22, on 11/07/2008, -0/+4One nuclear bomb would not be a good idea.
See: MAD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destru ... - thallium205, on 11/07/2008, -0/+4I live in vegas too.. "Right next to it".. are you kidding me? It's a perfect spot... too bad our stupid senators didn't think they could capitalize on it and sell it for a ***** tonne of money.
- GoatMonkey2112, on 11/07/2008, -2/+6Maybe we could just "accidentally" leave it in Iraq in a hidden underground bunker. If someone finds it we just blame Saddam. "SEE! We knew he had nuclear weapons capability!"
- RogerStrong, on 11/07/2008, -0/+4That's next week on Mythbusters. Looking forward to it.
- RogerStrong, on 11/08/2008, -0/+4Yeah, because if one ever fell back to earth, it would do exactly what the one in the the Apollo 13 LEM would do when IT fell back to earth.
That is, nothing.
That estimate of mass deaths happens only when you find some magical way of evenly distributing the plutonium. Roughly the same danger occurs if a car catches fire, and you evenly distribute the resulting poison gasses. But how often does that happen. - zolaar, on 11/07/2008, -1/+5Hey, everybody's gotta go sometime. That's *gotta* be up there on the coolest ways to be utterly annihilated?
- centran, on 11/07/2008, -0/+4good idea but it is far too dangerous to shoot it into outerspace. What happens if the rocket fails?
- overridemymind, on 11/08/2008, -0/+4thallium, that is quite possibly THE most ignorant thing I've seen on digg in a long time. "I don't ask anything from my country" *****. If you take so much about our country for granted that you can't even see the benifits you ARE actually reaping (yes, it's gone downhill in recent years) reaping just by just living there.
Any citizen of ANY nation inherently asks their nation to do for them -- whether they get what they want or not is another story. - pigeonmeister, on 11/07/2008, -0/+4yes
- theonlywizdum, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3Then get the hell out of my country, lazy asshat.
- nick111, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3"medical industry".
My friend, what you need is a Health Service. - HonestAbe, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3Vitrify it, encase it in concrete, and dump it in the rifts between the continental plates so it gets sucked under the Earth's crust. Safe, cheap, and easy.
- DougieD, on 11/07/2008, -2/+5read; fluoride.
(loljk... wait.. dear god!) - mdelling, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3Even if you are able to recycle it (and some of it is incredibly difficult to recycle) you still have to have somewhere to store it until it gets recycled. So there is a need for some kind of storage solution. As has been said, why have to large piles of tasty radioactive waste when you can have one really big one?
- plainOldFool, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3@fade, that is true. But refining and using spent uranium over and over will result in weapons grade material.
- plainOldFool, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3I first read it as "U.S. Decides one dump is enought". "No freaking way", I said. I dropped deuces this morning and I'm gonna go for round two in a moment.
Yeah, I'm sure you all really needed to know that. - camiller, on 11/07/2008, -1/+4What would we call such a moon base?
- Ghiren, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3Only one? I take a nuclear dump every day. Don't go near my bathroom in the mornings...
- Wonderama, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3Because all the Chicken Little, sky-is-falling, tree-huggers have been fighting Yucca Mountain for about the last 25 years and even a dolt like Bush realizes building another isn't worth the effort. Thanks for the all the CO2-dependent policies you've encouraged, tree huggers. Now go pick your poison; CO2 or nuclear waste?
- RogerStrong, on 11/07/2008, -1/+4Most radioactive waste comes from the medical industry. Are you saying that every state should have it's own waste dump? Or one for every city or hospital?
- sougly, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3We're Americans, we're allowed to be hypocrites.
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