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This sounds insane, but what if spent rods were stored in a spacecraft, launched into space, and then controlled safely out of Earth's orbit, and on a path away
by kunai 13y ago
This sounds insane, but what if spent rods were stored in a spacecraft, launched into space, and then controlled safely out of Earth's orbit, and on a path away to exit the solar system? Similar to the Voyager spacecraft, perhaps?
- whatshisface 13y agoNo need to exit the solar system, just ram them into the moon. I've heard that spaceX wants to get it down to about $500 per pound to orbit in the near future, and according to Advanced Inorganic Chemistry: Vollume II (found on Google), it costs about 200,000 dollars per kilogram for earthbound atomic waste disposal. Other than the danger of the rocket crashing back to earth, this sounds very reasonable!
- venomsnake 13y agoWhy so complicated. We are already in a gravity well, it is cheaper to throw stuff down it than throwing it out - aka - throw them into the sun.
- hengheng 13y agoWhat if one out of those thousand rockets fails?
- kunai 13y agoFine; set up the launch site in Antarctica. :P