On 26/09/14 18:42, Tim Streater wrote:
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On 26/09/2014 10:47, Tim Streater wrote:
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As glass is quite stable and is not likely to be eroded or damaged
until the planet melts in 500 million years time, it could just be left
to itself. The obvious answer is indeed to put it in an ocean trench,
where over aeons it will be subducted into the mantle, to join all the
other radioactive material that's already there.

Unfortunately, there are international treaties that prohibit doing that.

The US and the UK can declare war on each other. Then each can sail
merchant ships full of the stuff over the trenches. These ships can be
sunk by the other side's subs. One war every 10 years should do it,
followed each time by treaties of eternal friendship.

Or we could sell it to the Russians, who will just sink with it anyway.
How many russky nuke subs are down there? and how much radioactive dross
did they dump?

http://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issu...led-begin-week

"According to NRPA, a catalogue of waste in the Kara Sea released in
2012 includes 19 ships containing radioactive waste; 14 nuclear
reactors, including five that still contain spent nuclear fuel; 735
other pieces of radioactively contaminated heavy machinery; 17,000
containers of radioactive waste, and the K-27 nuclear submarine."

Oh joy!


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