[geeks] Global warming, was Mr Bill?

[Phil Stracchino]

der Mouse wrote:
>>>> [...] high-level radioactive waste [...]
>>> For what value of "safe"?
>> If all else fails, we could always pitch'em at the Moon.  Be a bit
>> expensive though.
> 
> I think the Sun would probably be better.  We're a lot more likely to
> want to put humans on the Moon than we are on the Sun.  (And if we ever
> do want to put humans on/in the Sun, the technology necessary to do it
> at all will probably be advanced enough that radioactivity would be at
> most a minor nuisaance, especially given how tiny the contribution we
> could make would be; the Sun is _big_.)

True.  Then again, if we start putting people on the Moon, we may want
those fissionables.

> But, honestly, I think it would be better to just stockpile them
> against the day when it becomes economic to extract the energy
> contained in them.  We're pretty close already.

Honestly, so would I.  Frankly, we can use most of them *right now*.


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