From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,60e2922351e0e780 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-17 23:38:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!news.eunet.no!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT: Nuclear Waste (Was Re-Marketing Ada) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PVV Message-ID: References: <3FB0B57D.6070906@noplace.com> <3FB22125.1040807@noplace.com> <3FB3751D.5090809@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.241.83.82 X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1069141084 15956 129.241.83.82 (18 Nov 2003 07:38:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:38:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2610 Date: 2003-11-18T07:38:04+00:00 List-Id: On 2003-11-17, Jeffrey Carter 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. -- "Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming language."