fuel rods and volcanoes

[jape]

A passing thought before I go away for a few days, Are there any physicists on the board?

It seems most of the older nuclear reactors like the problematic Japanese ones, store spent radio-active fuel rods on top of the reactor in water to keep it cool. Cleeeever. No one has any safe way yet of disposing of these rods or of storing them, so they just pile 'em up.

I just wondered what would happen if they were dumped into an active volcano? Would the immense heat liquify them and make them inert or would it mean radioactive smoke, etc etc.?

And apart from the risk of them falling back to earth in a Challenger type explosion, couldn't they be stored or 'lost' in space? Or sent into the sun?

[moilami]

Lol bad things would happen if those would be dropped on a volcano

The sun though would engulf and burn them no probs from far away.

Nuclear waste is like any other crap. The best way to handle with is to ignore it and leave the problem for new generations

Have fun in your holiday and come back from there!