Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste

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From: indigo
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 00:00

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"Tim O'Flaherty" <pinwheels@attcanada.net> wrote in message
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> Dewey & Lucy Thompson wrote in message ...
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> I don't accept the assumption that the engineering has been solved.  This
> problem is unlike any we have been faced with before in our history. You
> must forgive us if we have doubts about the viability of any containment
> scheme lasting thousands of years.

Some years ago I walked in a salt mine which geologically had not been
infiltrated by groundwater since the Triassic period or >100 million years.
The frequency of transfer of water into that salt formation is
<1:100,000,000 per year.  How can anyone say that there are no areas where
there is an extremely low chance of groundwater contamination?  If these
probabilities are considered too risky, why?  We drive down highways whose
speed limits are based on a predicted frequency of fatalities yet rarely is
there debate that the limit is too high and no one suggests that cars should
be banned outright.

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From: "indigo" <indigojz@intergate.ca>
Subject: Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste
Date: 2000/05/14
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