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 23:53:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!news.tdcnorge.no!uninett.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 07:53:52 +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 1069142032 16324 129.241.83.82 (18 Nov 2003 07:53:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:53:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2612 Date: 2003-11-18T07:53:52+00:00 List-Id: On 2003-11-18, Preben Randhol wrote: > 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. I found an account in English here: http://www.bellona.no/en/international/russia/navy/northern_fleet/incidents/31767.html and here is the situation about nuclear waste discribed: http://www.bellona.no/en/international/russia/waste-mngment/index.html http://www.bellona.no/en/international/russia/navy/northern_fleet/index.html -- "Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming language."