Jeez... who was the genius who thought blowing up chemical weapons to destroy them was a good idea?

i dunno. maybe it's better to incinerate all that shit rather than to sit around and let fester in some old leaky canisters. maybe they can stick it on a rocket and shoot it all towards the sun.

Sell it to China! They'll turn it into toys or dog food and sell it back to us.

You know what they say about junk: It's stuff you keep for years and years and years - and then throw it out the day before you need it.

right up there with sprinkling Iraq with depleted uranium. pure evil.

Perfectly harmless. Safer than mothers milk. I had a big glass full of chemical weapon material just this morning and I feel fine.

---Chemical Industry----

i dunno. maybe it's better to incinerate all that shit rather than to sit around and let fester in some old leaky canisters. maybe they can stick it on a rocket and shoot it all towards the sun.

#2 | Posted by somoco at 2010-02-19 07:18 PM

Because putting it on a rocket and launching it high into the atmosphere would be incredibly dangerous.

Rockets do have problems sometimes, and have been known to blow up during launch.

...who was the genius who thought blowing up chemical weapons to destroy them was a good idea? -- #1 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine

Gotta be someone who doesn't like Colorado or Kentucky.

So pointless. Won't make the deadline anyway.

...maybe it's better to incinerate all that shit rather than to sit around and let fester in some old leaky canisters. -- #2 | Posted by somoco

Maybe. But not better than

the Army's promise to dispose of the mustard agent at the two sites by neutralizing it , a process that involves mixing it with water and either bacteria or a combination of fuel and superheated air , and taking it to a hazardous waste dump.

I wouldn't want to be downwind from a rotary kiln filled with that shit. How about sealing it in concrete and dumping in the ocean?

Wonder where the Obama administration plans to put those nuclear power plants and their waste. Wouldn't think reneging on agreements about how to dispose of dangerous materials would help them find a happy host.

Pho, there is a safe site to store the high level waste in Nevada. The low level stuff is going to Carlsbad, NM. to be stored in a salt formation.

Pho, there is a safe site to store the high level waste in Nevada.

If it is so safe how come nobody else thinks so but you?

This high level waste is so nasty it is not even safe to transport it.