Re: Solving the Energy problem.



----Really. Radioactive waste doesn't exist in Cannonworld. Got it.

Your answer from an expert. You will have to pardon him about being caustic,
He has little patience with people who dont know what they are talking
about. That means you and me.

Yucca Mountain is the propose site for the storage of all the nuclear
waste in the US. The site was selected after many reviews and a very
complex selection process. It is remote, gets very little rain fall, the
water table is 2,000 feet below ground and 1,000 ft below the storage
location ( which is 1,000 ft below ground), is stable rock plus
additional factors. Since being selected there has been much political
debate - very much NIMBY - after 10 years are so little or no action. The
total amount of waste stored on site at the various nuclear reactors (
very little stored off site) goes back as far as 1968 is about 52,000
tons. To but in context this is about 2,000 semi - truck loads, about
what one of Wal-Mart's or Target's etc. large distribution centers move
in a couple of weeks for each distribution site. Therefore based on the
simple volume of waste it is very small compared to the amount of
refinery waste, garbage, oil & gas production, chemical waste, used motor
oil, plastic, and on an on. Also the amount of waste from the weapons
program is much larger. The amount of waste could be reduced by a large
amount by reprocessing and recycling the uranium and plutonium, but this
is politically impossible in US - it is done in France and the UK. We
transport, use, process and store 10,000 of times this amount of deadly
chemicals every day in US, likely in LA alone - methyl - ethyl death goes
up and down rail lines and tankers every day - chlorine, cyanide plus
dozens of other highly toxic chemicals. The burning of coal for power
generates far more radioactive waste and emissions then the nuclear power
plants and their associated waste. It is is basically an emotional
issue - nuclear weapons are bad, therefore anything nuclear is bad. A
good comparison is the war in Iraqi - Col. Petersen was on TV the other
day discussing the New York Times article on the murder rate of Iraqi war
veterans and came across an interesting fact - since the star of the
Iraqi war three times as many 18-34 males have been murdered in US as
soldiers killed in war - where are the protesters, rallies, outrage,
press coverage, etc. We kill 40,000 plus - half due to alcohol every year
on the highway - this is roughly the 1,000 year risk for nuclear power -
OK 50,000 nuclear deaths and the sky is falling and we must drive smaller
cars, turn down the thermostat, eat organic food, and on and so we do not
need more energy - completely change our country and life style, but
40,000,000 THAT IS 40 MILLION highway deaths over same period is ho-hum.
By that standard alcohol is the most deadly threat to mankind and should
be outlawed - oh we tried that did we not!!! Could it be the change in
the country and life style is want they really want and whatever makes
that change less necessary must be opposed - something to think about?


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