if i may open a can of worms...

Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:44 am by freighter fighter

Ananova:

Lord proposes burying UK's nuclear waste in Sahara

A peer has told the House of Lords that Britain's radioactive waste should be buried in the middle of the Sahara desert.

Lord Hylton's suggestion, at Question Time, follows a recent proposal by Labour's Viscount Simon that nuclear waste should be blasted into outer space.

Junior environment minister Lord Whitty replied that there might be "a number of international problems" in crossbencher Lord Hylton's idea.

Tory former Chancellor Lord Lawson of Blaby said the "only rational solution" is to store the waste in the places where the waste was created.

But Labour ex-MP Lord Campbell-Savours, whose former Workington constituency includes Sellafield, said the "only realistic option" was to bury the waste at sea. He stated the public would not accept a land-based option.

But Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer, for Liberal Democrats, said it would be "irresponsible" to dispose of the waste at sea.

The long-term question of radioactive waste disposal is to be examined by a new Committee on Radioactive Waste Management.

Story filed: 17:16 Tuesday 16th December 2003

what do you all think?

It is better to aim for the stars and hit the tops of the trees than to aim for nothing and hit it dead on.

Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:49 am by Wolf_Demon

huh?

Muwahahahaha!!!
I lost it!!!.....or better yet; did I ever have it?

Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:52 am by freighter fighter

read it again wolfy, its what real people like to read/ discuss. HAH no spam for you

It is better to aim for the stars and hit the tops of the trees than to aim for nothing and hit it dead on.

Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:57 am by ???VivaHispa?a16!!!

It's desert, they're not using it. Go ahead, UK! Screw over the world's enviroment. It's about time someone besides the US and Russia does! --- VH16

Whoever came up with "Mission Commision" should be lined up and shot

Thu Dec 18, 2003 2:01 am by freighter fighter

blast it into space, who knows we may create something that wil contact us

Thu Dec 18, 2003 2:19 am by Wolf_Demon

it looks like a bucket-o-stuff
stuff like this doenst spark my interest

Muwahahahaha!!!
I lost it!!!.....or better yet; did I ever have it?

Thu Dec 18, 2003 2:19 am by Sir Spectre

Actually there's another option. The radiactivity of the waste is the worst part of the material. However processes have been developed using laser technology to increase the normal disapation rate of radioactive materials. So now it is possible to limit a material being radioactive from 50 years to a far less term. In time it could be as little as 50 minutes. Once the radiation is gone, the waste can be stored anywhere and huge expenditures aren't necessary for removal, especially for something as costly as launching it into space.

Sir Spectre

Thu Dec 18, 2003 2:41 am by Tachyon

Store it someplace where it can be monitored and controlled until either a use for it is found or it can easily and cheaply be rendered harmless. By the way, you should add just about every developing/developed nation to that little list there, because it's a little short right now.

Thu Dec 18, 2003 3:05 am by Indy11

Spend some money on coming up with a method of ejecting the waste off of the planet surface and into a collision course trajectory with the Sun. Who cares how long it takes?

It's not as if the Sun needs any more nuclear fuel. On the other hand, a little more nuclear fuel won't hurt it.

Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:58 am by RILMS

The Saraha was once a tropical Jungle, who knows what it'll be in the furture. The contantes are still moving around.

India is moving into the contant. Thats why Everest gains an inch each year. India is an inch shorter, more or less.

I'd go with what Spectre is talking about.

Life: No one gets out alive.

Thu Dec 18, 2003 8:10 am by Chips

Erm, well, just mix it in with vast volumes of concrete in foundations of tower blocks (far underground perhaps) If in small enough quanitities, then it should be absorbed by the concrete.

Thu Dec 18, 2003 8:39 am by Tawakalna

they can put it anywhere they like as long as its not in Britain.

Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:30 am by Nickless V2

Well, you can either dispose of it and not knowing what's happening to it (desert/ocean) or you can keep it in a place where you can monitor it and make sure nothing bad happens to it. The problem is, nobody wants it.
Ofcourse you can always slingshot it into space, but the costs would be to huge.

If what sS said is true, then the problem might not be as huge as everyone thinks.

Edit: Damn spelling.

Daft Vader - I am your father.
sS - Noooooooo! I demand a DNA-test.
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Thu Dec 18, 2003 10:12 am by freighter fighter

i think they should shoot it at venus.

Thu Dec 18, 2003 12:53 pm by Aceaz

What did Venus ever do? Bury it on the Moon, we've got no use for that..

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