From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!grunwald
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Re: Reactors on the moon - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.717
Posted: Thu Sep 16 19:27:45 1982
Received: Fri Sep 17 03:27:42 1982

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uiucdcs!grunwald    Sep 16 18:38:00 1982

re: dumping wastes on the moon

  Somehow, some little voice inside my head says that if we dump all of
our nuclear waste so close to home so soon, that in 5000 years, we'll
wish we hadn't. Assuming people are still alive, the moon would have
a much more key position for travel and whatnot. It would seem a shame to
to that to such a nicely situated piece of rock. A better plan would be to
be a little safer about it, and then cleanup and shoot the wastes into
deep space (say at a near by star). Even if it takes a few centuries to
get to the star, it wouldn't matter much in deep space.