Scientists continue to have problems dealing with nuclear waste as seen here in these acres of large nuclear waste containers.
According to Dr. Bob Benchoff, one possibility for correcting the problem is to fire a stream of the waste particles away from earth. "One high power system might do the job, as the enormous cost would hardly be a drop in the cleanup bucket. We would just need to keep the path clear of aerospace vehicles. The particles would only need to be blasted 100,000 miles, pending further research, then solar winds from the sun would take-over." In theory, the latent energy from the waste itself could be used in part to accelerate the beam. "The toughest part is the skin or ground effect of earth, being the less than 20 miles where the atmosphere resides and gravity is strongest. After that it's simple, although magnetosphere concerns remain slightly significant, such as found when dealing with ubiquitous subjects not previously relegated to precise formulas and calculations generally revered as being consistently accurate." July 9, 2004.
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