Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste

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From: Greig Ebeling
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00

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On Wed, 31 May 2000 18:12:58 GMT, none (Quarks like a duck) wrote:

>greige@bigpond.com (Greig Ebeling) wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>
>There is an enormous difference which is what has not been solved  -
>the energy of radioactive waste. That is the crux of the matter and
>has not been resolved. You may say what you want, but you have not
>asnwered my questions and are just repeating yourselves.
>
>Whoever accused me of not having a rational discussion is missing the
>point that no one has answered my rational questions.

I presume the "energy of radioactive waste" you are concerned about is
the residual heat and high levels of radio-activity is nuclear waste
when it has just been removed from the reactor.

This is not a problem at all.  The waste is held on site, adjacent to
the reactor, in concrete lined storage repositories.  It stays there
for a few decades, until "cool" enough to be reprocessed or treated
for disposal.  This where almost all the nuclear waste from reactors
is currently located, with very few problems reported to date.

If that is your main gripe, then you are worrying about a relative
no-brainer.

...Greig

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From: greige@bigpond.com (Greig Ebeling)
Subject: Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste
Date: 2000/06/01
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