door joris84 » za 19 feb 2011, 23:48
oke bedankt, maar in het stuk lees ik ook meteen de ontkrachting van mijn idee: radicactieve rotzooi de ruimte inschieten
What about nuclear waste? A nuclear reactor releases about 25-30 tonnes of spent fuel every year. With our dream budget of $1,000/kg, that would cost about $25 million to launch a single reactors waste into orbit. According to Wikipedia, there are 63 operating reactors in the US, so it would cost about $1.6 billion/year to dispose of the nuclear waste generated.
Its been estimated that Yucca Mountain the United States current plan to store nuclear waste will cost about $58 billion to store waste over the course of 100 years. So storing waste in Yucca Mountain will cost about 1/3rd the price of launching that material into space. Not to mention the terrible risk of launching rockets full of nuclear waste into space imagine what might happen if a rocket exploded in mid-flight
oke bedankt, maar in het stuk lees ik ook meteen de ontkrachting van mijn idee: radicactieve rotzooi de ruimte inschieten
What about nuclear waste? A nuclear reactor releases about 25-30 tonnes of spent fuel every year. With our dream budget of $1,000/kg, that would cost about $25 million to launch a single reactors waste into orbit. According to Wikipedia, there are 63 operating reactors in the US, so it would cost about $1.6 billion/year to dispose of the nuclear waste generated.
Its been estimated that Yucca Mountain the United States current plan to store nuclear waste will cost about $58 billion to store waste over the course of 100 years. So storing waste in Yucca Mountain will cost about 1/3rd the price of launching that material into space. Not to mention the terrible risk of launching rockets full of nuclear waste into space imagine what might happen if a rocket exploded in mid-flight