2007-02-21 04:39:43 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Nothing would happen.
(Just like nothing is going to happen if we bury it in salt deposits below Yucca Mountain.) In fact, it would supremely stupid to send our nuclear waste to the moon. There is so much disinformation about nuclear waste it is incredible. We won't let it sit underground forever. Yucca mountain is referred to as a "storage facility" because it is fully expected that in the future we will have better technology to allow us to go back and recycle old nuclear waste to get even more energy from it.
2007-02-21 04:54:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, that isn't going to happen. It is far to expensive to transport our nuclear junk to the Moon.
If nuclear waste was buried on the Moon, the Moon would start "ticking."
2007-02-21 10:46:23 · answer #2 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The area of the moon were the waste was buried would most certainly become irradiated and even more dangerous for any future space / moon based colonist.
2007-02-21 05:00:46 · answer #3 · answered by dan.strother 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would just have a pocket of nuclear waste on it ... what would you expect ? The cost and danger of sending waste there and of burying it would be outrageous of that's what you/re suggesting.
2007-02-21 04:43:07 · answer #4 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that is a VERY good question. In my opinion, nothing would happen, because the radiontion shouldn't disturb anything in far space.
2007-02-21 04:43:37 · answer #5 · answered by 01winged 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would still radiate just the same. The radiation would probably be dispersed by solar winds.
2007-02-21 04:45:51 · answer #6 · answered by Evil Genius 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
moon-bish.:)
2007-02-21 07:37:10 · answer #7 · answered by hanibal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋