X-Message-Number: 20301 From: Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 11:06:33 EDT Subject: Re: Radio-active products --part1_164.1597f1d0.2adae5f9_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From Lee Corbin: > > Ocean dumping is presently done with some wastes: they're > placed in a large massive bullet-shaped vessel, and upon > colliding with the sea bottom immerse themselves many > meters into the sea bed. The area chosen can have two > appealing traits: (1) sediment is continually being > laid down, so that the vessels containing the nuclear > waste become buried even deeper over time (2) the > area lies in a region undergoing geologic subduction. > > Thus, the nuclear wastes won't be causing any problems > for millions of years, by which time, of course, they'll > have ceased to be radioactive anyway. > > Lee Corbin > First, salt water is very corrosive and subduction on scalle of millions of years don't solve the rusting problems in tens of years. Second, given water viscosity (hydrodynamics drag) and archimedian push, the impact speed is not sufficient to entomb the barrels (furtunately, because a sufficient speed would broke the containers!). Third, ocean botton is not a desert, billions of small worms are here, they are the start of a chain food who go up to all the sea domain, many fission products are concentrated by biological activity and that is the big problem with sea dump. Sorry, there is no good solution to nuclear energy on Earth, the best we can do with fission is to forget it. Yvan Bozzonetti (The Alkaid thinker :-). --part1_164.1597f1d0.2adae5f9_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20301