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- From: Jimgw@sound.demon.co.uk (James Goldwater)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!sound.demon.co.uk!Jimgw
- Subject: Re: Run! I think the Power Plant's Gonna Blow!!
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 13:25:47 +0000
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- In article <JMC.92Dec20182851@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >[...]
- >I don't propose looking ahead more than 1,000 years, because long before
- >that our descendants will be far ahead of where we are technologically.
- [...]
- >--
- >John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- >*
- >He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
- >
- >
-
-
- I have recently read of a fairly easy way to get rid of radioactive waste
- permanently, which is in sight of today's technology. All you do is put the
- waste in an accelerator ring and bombard it. It will then undergo some sort of
- nuclear reaction - some of it will be turned into more radioactive stuff, but
- some will be kicked into stable isotopes. You then extract the stable stuff
- (how? I don't know - but there's sure to be a way) and put the still-
- radioactive stuff back in the accelerator, to kick it again. That way you
- transmute the radioactive stuff gradually into harmless isotopes - and it
- doesn't require any radically new technology.
-
-
- _______________
-
- "What's your proposal? To build the just city? I will.
- I agree. Or is it the suicide pact, the romantic
- Death? Very well, I accept, for
- I am your choice, your decision. Yes, I am Spain."
-
- - Spain, W.H.Auden
-
- Mail me! James Goldwater: jimgw@sound.demon.co.uk
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