2006-06-25 03:45:41 · 22 answers · asked by Jeff K 1 in Environment
That would be an insanely expensive garbage disposal, don't you think? Better to find some use for the waste. Everything is good for something if you ponder it long enough.
2006-06-25 03:48:44 · answer #1 · answered by 'Schmod 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
That is a good question?
The problem, I think, is that we don't know enough about the sun and the reaction that would cause. And what if we leak nuclear waste in space? What if others want the right to send their dangerous chemicals to the sun too? How much can the sun take? Will the heat of the sun just leave the nuclear waste into ashes, or absorb it. There are so many questions to ask. What if there are adverse reactions like explosions on the sun? A lot of research needs to be done.
2006-07-01 18:53:47 · answer #2 · answered by Ilovechristjesustheking 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great idea!....... If you want to contaminate and kill everything on earth! The fuel for such a venture is already in place in the old missles no longer needed or outdated, strapping payloads to them of toxic waste seems like a great idea, at which pont when they get close enough to the sun they vaporize! Wonderful right?
But not all of it would be! The solar winds would carry what didn't right back to us and like the suns rays themselves would hit everything on our planet as it rotates. Granted, THAT may very well be better in the long run than having all of it here at its full strength and taking our chances with it in that form. But even if it were to be practical, Im sure it would happen far too late it make any difference either way.
As "energy" itself, using it would be much more practical NOW, and if self contained systems were devised, (to power a car for example).... That car could run virtually forever! And then the automakers would go out of business and the oil companies too! Not likely THEY would allow such a thing!
2006-07-01 22:41:37 · answer #3 · answered by Izen G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is more force of substance radiating from the sun towards us than the opposite. The cost of launching, trying to establish entry into the field properly so that the crud is not dumped back on us rather than sent to burn as we would want the mass to do
would be so prohibitively expensive that it is not a feasible solution.
2006-06-25 10:57:24 · answer #4 · answered by cmpbush 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a great sounding idea until you consider just how much nuclear waste weighs.
uranium is a heavy metal. weighs just as much as lead or gold about, because its very dense. you would have to shoot a lot of shuttles into space just to get rid of what looks like small amounts but which are actually tons of material. true, it would be gone, but i don't think many nations could afford to do it long.
another problem is that when you compact it enough to fit in a small space like a rocket body, you have the additional problem of the radiation interacting with itself and exploding. the only safe way to keep some radioactive materials in one place is to divide it into a small enough parts that keeps it sub critical. too much...one fission event. no body needs that kind of problem. they want to reduce the pollution, not make it bigger.
hope this helps
2006-06-25 21:21:43 · answer #5 · answered by centurion613 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we had scientists that think like that we'd all be genetically mutated or dead. Sending that kind of stuff toward the sun would create a pollution problem in space. It would blow up on its way to the sun and mess up the solar system.
2006-07-01 17:14:49 · answer #6 · answered by C.W. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would make a lot more sense to recycle nuclear waste into useful medical isotopes and the like, unfortunately, former president Carter spearheaded and act that makes it illegal in the US. So countries like Japan have to buy our nuclear waste, reprocess it and sell it back.
2006-06-27 15:31:13 · answer #7 · answered by Paul 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just because it's at the moment too expensive!!! But I agree it could be a good idea: send it to the Sun so it would decay to the smallest particles which all already exits in that state on the Sun... I already thougt about it myself and "TOO EXPENSIVE" is the answer I got when I asked my dad who is a physicist...
2006-06-27 04:45:09 · answer #8 · answered by Jasna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a tremendous amount of it and the weight of it would be extremely expensive..plus not to mention the hazards involved, look at all the launch failours in the last few years....
2006-07-01 17:02:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate to think that we might already be doing that. Ever wonder what happens to old outdated satellites?
The commecialized world runs the space programs. What is the profit in sending the wastes into space????
2006-06-25 11:43:22 · answer #10 · answered by NoPoaching 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋