Timeline for Can you speed up radioactive decay of plutonium?
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| Dec 28, 2012 at 12:13 | comment | added | Antillar Maximus | @RichartBremer, what if the rocket blows up during launch? | |
| Dec 7, 2012 at 7:28 | comment | added | John Rennie | Too expensive. There are lots of good ideas for improving nuclear generation of power, and they always fail because they're too expensive i.e. more expensive than just using gas or coal instead. | |
| Dec 6, 2012 at 23:26 | comment | added | user11151 | Why not put radioactive waste into space shuttles and deposit it on the moon or some other planet? In space there is strong radiation everywhere anyway, and space doesn't "consider" anything waste. | |
| Dec 6, 2012 at 16:27 | comment | added | Martin Beckett | In addition you don't want to increase the decay rate of a nice long half-life source like Pu, increasing it's decay rate makes it much nastier to handle! | |
| Dec 6, 2012 at 16:24 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | Efforts to getting beam based waste processing---which people have been working on for decades---from the realm of science fiction to reality are currently being funded by the US DOE on "the intensity frontier". Typical approaches use either an electron beam directly or a as powerful bremstrahlung source. No news yet. | |
| Dec 6, 2012 at 8:35 | history | answered | John Rennie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |