Re: Could deep boreholes solve our nuclear waste problem?

Feb 28, 2023 Last reply: 3 years ago 3 Replies

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bitrex

To be clearer, some amount of the previously stable isotopes in the soil itself are made radioactive by close exposure to gajillions of high-energy neutrons. As you like. Ronald Reagan is recorded to have once quipped something like "_I_ didn't have cancer, my colon had cancer…

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bitrex 3 years ago

> Could deep boreholes solve our nuclear waste problem?

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> You'll never know from reading that crap article written by an airhead who obviously lacks any sense of organization whatsoever.
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>> Of course it does not solve the radioactive fallout from WW3.. >
> Modern bombs are clean, there's not much fallout. Nuclear bombs aren't all they're cracked up to be. They only appear to be devastating when used on high density population centers- mainly because they are, but, outside that particular scenario, the destruction is not so much.

Ground burst neutron activation. Strikes against relatively hard targets like airfields, missile silos, submarine bases, military bases believed to have underground complexes/bunkers are going to be ground blasts and kick up millions of tons of radioactive dirt

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bitrex 3 years ago

To be clearer, some amount of the previously stable isotopes in the soil itself are made radioactive by close exposure to gajillions of high-energy neutrons.

As you like. Ronald Reagan is recorded to have once quipped something like "_I_ didn't have cancer, my colon had cancer and they removed the cancer from my colon"

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Clifford Heath 3 years ago

Leading to the riddle

"Why is Ronald Reagan like an old typewriter?" ... "Both have no memory and no colon"

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Ricky 3 years ago

Sometimes, people really show their ignorance. Other than "dirty bombs", nuclear bombs of all types are clean if exploded far enough above the ground, letting the shockwave do the real work. The fallout comes from irradiating things in the immediate vicinity of the blast, which is then sucked up in the mushroom cloud and dispersed widely. Higher airbursts don't create so much radioactive debris, so less fallout.

It's not the weapon that makes so much radioactive "filth".

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