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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 6/1/2005, you wrote:

> Disposal of radioactive waste is the primary challenge. France continues 
> to deal with disposal and has found no acceptable long-term plan. Why not 
> put the stuff in rockets and send them toward the sun? At some 
> intermediate point it would disintegrate.

Like everything else in the Nuclear corner, it would be prohibitively 
expensive and those tons of rocket fuel would add significant amounts of 
pollution to the atmosphere not to count the huge quantities of liquid fuel 
needed to completely escape the Earth's gravity well. Then think on what 
would happen if there were a launch or near earth explosion as has happened 
to many unmanned rockets.

Don Bowen                          Awl Knotted Up

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