Re: OT: Nuclear Waste (Was Re-Marketing Ada)

[Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>]

On 2003-11-17, Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
> In the 1850s, distilling petroleum to make kerosene for lamps produced a 
> volatile, highly flammable, undesirable waste product that was burned 
> immediately because it was good for nothing. Today we call that waste 
> product gasoline (or petrol) and use it to power our vehicles. What 
> makes you think that nuclear waste is any different? We have no use for 
> it today, but it may be very valuable in 100 years.
>

Well, I don't know I wouldn't think so though. However, I'm more
concerned about the rusting heap of nuclear driven submarines and
u-boats in North of Russia. Last attempt to move one of them ended in it
sinking. 

And yesterday an attempt was done to steal the nuclear fuelcells (not
sure about the name in English) of two lighthouses in northen Russia.
The fuelcells were dumped most probably because of the weight (500kg
with 15kg Strontium) and that the radiation is leathal
and the theives probably exposed themselves to leathal dosage. There is
now a 500 m security radius around where the cells were dumped due to
the radiation.  However, in the hands of more expert terrorists such
thefts could possibly be done and then used to make "dirty" bombs. There
are still 128 nuclear driven lighthouses in the Kola penincula. 


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