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Re: News Advisory: Still Crazy -- no nuke waste problem, just doesn't exist ....



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MAIN <nobody@ncsu.edu> wrote:

>And I would point out that why do you assume that the Guv'ment should
>handle the waste from private industry ?  Seems that if Nook Energy is
>a viable alternative, the industry should be able to pay for it/handle
>it as part of their business practice.

But they have. The US federal government entered into a contractual
agreement to provide a permament waste repository. The nuclear plants
have been paying into the fund to pay for this for years, and have
accumulated ~$14 billion, I believe.

>I happen to agree w/ the part about "if managed properly," but when the
>greed mongers start diving into the equation, the safety and responsibiliy
>factors disappear in a PR smoke and backroom legislation purchased to slew
>nuclear sludge into *someone*else's*bedroom*.

I repeat, the _small_ amount of nuclear waste (compared to the amount
of power produced). Will be handled in a federall-built facility which
will be paid for by the nuclear utilities. You see, the Feds have
forbidden them to dispose of it themselves, collected the money from
them to pay for the disposal, but have not moved to build the facility
which they said they would to take the spent fuel. Since the utilities
are hence paying for a service which they are not receiving, they took
the government to court.

>That being said, Mr. Beorn, I have a nuclear waste dump that I'd like you
>live on.  Property values are REAL cheap, and since "it's the ONLY truly
>non-polluting power" you have no worries.

Noone will live on a high level nuclear waste repository. However, for
one of the type envisioned at Yucca mountain, I would be perfectly
willing to do so. The stuff will be buried so far down, away from
ground water, and sealed in enough layers of concrete, steel and
what-have-you, that there would be no adverse health effects, IMHO.
You should look up the natural nuclear reactor in Gabon, at which the
fission products, simpy sitting in ore-bearing rock, haven't moved in
millions of years.

>Stupid ignorant fuck.

My, my. Didn't your mother ever teach you any manners?

>Nope.  No waste problem at all.  Never was one, never will be one.

The only problems associated with high level waste disposal are
political, not technical. It can be done safely and cheaply.

>The tax payers will solve it.

No, the nuclear utilities have been paying for it for years, out of
their revenues for selling nuclear power.


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