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Article #126Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste
From: Greig Ebeling
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 00:00
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Nuclear waste disposal is not a technical problem, the same and similar techniques have been researched, tested and have been in production on toxic chemical wastes for nearly 2 decades. The problem has not been solved POLITICALLY. On Tue, 30 May 2000 16:14:33 GMT, none (Quarks like a duck) wrote: >Sorry, DOE says the chance of opening the site to waste is 50-50. >No one knows how to solve the problem and that is why it has NEVER >been done successfully. Why is it still being studied if the problems >are solved? Why has there never been an anouncement from DOE NRC NEI >etc that it is solved? > >You are so full of shit. > > >>Calculations in fact suggest that the Yucca Mountain site is very likely to >>meet requirements. As long as the opponents continue to suggest that >>anything less 100% guarantees is unacceptable, and as long as the >>politicians remain spineless, the dance will continue...until the lights go >>out. (and it was the politicians, with little understanding of the science, >>but abundant understanding of the electoral facts of life, who focused on >>Yucca Mountain in the HLW Amendment Act of 1987. Former Louisiana Senator J. >>Bennett Johnson said, following its passage, "We have solved the high-level >>waste problem." I wonder if he's any more capable of understanding the facts >>of the mater now than he was in 1987?) > > > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ecc0,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ecc0,public X-Google-Thread: 107e5d,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid107e5d,public X-Google-Thread: fb19c,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb19c,public X-Google-Thread: 102359,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid102359,public X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public X-Google-Thread: 10c480,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c480,public From: greige@bigpond.com (Greig Ebeling) Subject: Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste Date: 2000/05/31 Message-ID: <39345a3a.58079449@news.bigpond.com> X-Deja-AN: 629245084 References: <8f1vof$fas$1@possum.melbpc.org.au> <8f2n6g$61p$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> <39162523@news.rivernet.com.au> <957754941.595999@server.tarms.com> <shf6v3i05uh22@corp.supernews.com> <39186F24.9D1EBB6A@tcac.net> <957915161.274368@server.tarms.com> <8fa92n$f2i$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net> <8F30661E4bnesheimonlineno@148.122.208.74> <_RcS4.38598$Xk2.139664@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> <8F3097C58bnesheimonlineno@148.122.208.74> <OQdS4.38606$Xk2.139672@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> <958003425.891133@server.tarms.com> <8fcukc$ <391C48E0.27163060@boeing.com> <N4mT4.40348$Xk2.143903@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> <hlVX4.6296$Ym2.167177@typhoon2.ba-dsg.net> <8h0paj$dqu$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net> X-Trace: newsfeeds.bigpond.com 959731988 203.54.214.45 (Wed, 31 May 2000 10:13:08 EST) Organization: Telstra BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.com) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:13:08 EST Newsgroups: alt.engineering.nuclear,aus.environment.misc,aus.politics,sci.energy,sci.engr.mining,sci.environment.waste