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Sunday, October 17, 2021
CONTEXT: Melting Nuclear Waste to the Earth's Mantle
Now's a good time to plug an awesome proposal for disposing of nuclear waste: literally, put it inside of a big tungsten ball.
— Arthur B. 🌮 (@ArthurB) October 15, 2021
The waste heats the ball from the inside, the ball melts the ground underneath it and slowly sinks to the earth's core.https://t.co/scJD2KAljs
Here is the 2011 paper, “Self-Sinking Capsules to Investigate Earth’s Interior and Dispose of Radioactive Waste”. Full text is available at the ResearchGate site. The first paragraph of the paper is:
Technical experts, science fiction writers, and environmental advocates have all famously considered a self-descending spherical body in a melting environment not as a solution but as a problem. In connection with nuclear reactor core meltdown, this phenomenon is the so-called China Syndrome. Let’s step back and consider the China Syndrome as a solution.
Posted at October 17, 2021 12:20