re nuclear waste in psg ree access digex net prb access digex com pat writes on the issue of burning nuclear wastes using particle beams how is it ever going to be an off the shelf technology if someone doesn t do it maybe we should do this as part of the ssf design goals gee fred after your bitter defense of khz power as a basic technology for ssf id think you would support a minor research program like this i sometimes wonder if your newsfeed gives you different articles than everyone else pat just a few corrections i never defended khz power other than as something reasonable to go look at i have also never opposed a research project into feasibility of the spalling reactor approach to cleaning nuclear waste i simply doubt it could be made to work in the real world tm which ought to become clear fairly quickly during a research program into feasibility sort of like what happened to khz power it proved to have a down side that was too expensive to overcome i figure things wrong in a single sentence is a high enough fault density for even you pat insisting on perfect safety is for people who don t have the balls to live in the real world mary shafer nasa ames dryden fred mccall dseg ti com i don t speak for others and they don t speak for me
