Neat idea at it's core. However, at present, it costs about $10,000 to send 1 pound of material into orbit. Which means that it would cost about $20,000,000 to send one ton of radioactive waste into orbit. (just orbit -- not even to break our orbit and send it to another destination)-The Fernald, Ohio nuclear waste site has about 16,000 tons of uranium wastes, 2.5 million tons of other nuclear waste, and 2.75 million cubic yards of radioactive soil and debris.-To just put our uranium wastes from this one radioactive waste dump site into orbit would cost $ 1.5 trillion. And of course, we would risk some form of accident that would shower that stuff all over earth from orbit for many years, and it would be impossible to clean up.
Yes, there are certain forms of fungus that can thrive in a radioactive rich environment. But who would pick them? And fungus can't render radioactive materials harmless.
No...We need to mix it in with all the other garbage we produce, add polluted water and put mycelium spores (fungus) in it. In 20 years you have mushrooms - magic and otherwise...completely edible.
Two reasons: 1) To make rockets that would be capable of taking all the spent uranium and plutonium to the Sun would take FAR more energy than was in the original uranium 2) Rockets are not really safe. They often explode on launch. And if a rocket containing a massive amount of nuclear waste was to explode... That could be trouble.
Neat idea at it's core. However, at present, it costs about $10,000 to send 1 pound of material into orbit. Which means that it would cost about $20,000,000 to send one ton of radioactive waste into orbit. (just orbit -- not even to break our orbit and send it to another destination)-The Fernald, Ohio nuclear waste site has about 16,000 tons of uranium wastes, 2.5 million tons of other nuclear waste, and 2.75 million cubic yards of radioactive soil and debris.-To just put our uranium wastes from this one radioactive waste dump site into orbit would cost $ 1.5 trillion. And of course, we would risk some form of accident that would shower that stuff all over earth from orbit for many years, and it would be impossible to clean up.
Yes, there are certain forms of fungus that can thrive in a radioactive rich environment. But who would pick them? And fungus can't render radioactive materials harmless.
No...We need to mix it in with all the other garbage we produce, add polluted water and put mycelium spores (fungus) in it. In 20 years you have mushrooms - magic and otherwise...completely edible.
Two reasons: 1) To make rockets that would be capable of taking all the spent uranium and plutonium to the Sun would take FAR more energy than was in the original uranium 2) Rockets are not really safe. They often explode on launch. And if a rocket containing a massive amount of nuclear waste was to explode... That could be trouble.