In reply to grok's message of Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:59:36 -0700: Hi, [snip] >I always knew there was a way to burn up all that fission waste product >(million-year storage my hairy ass...) What about all the containment >vessels and tubing and equipment damaged by neutron bombardment? That's >some huge mass of junk by now, ain't it? [snip] Yes it is, but most of those isotopes have relatively short half lives (compared to the actinides). BTW don't let this post fool you. I am no protagonist of nuclear fission, but if the worst comes to the worst, and we have to use it, then this seems to me, like a better method than that proposed in the article I was replying to.
Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
