Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste

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From: Walt Newcomb
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 00:00

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"indigo" <indigojz@intergate.ca> wrote in message
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> 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

This point is on the mark, and it was in salt (halite) that the US National
Academy of Science in 1955 suggested the nation seek a repository site. Then
the politicians focused on Yucca Mountan in 1987.....

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From: "Walt Newcomb" <wnewcomb@bellatlantic.net>
Subject: Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste
Date: 2000/05/27
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