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Article #167Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste
From: none Quarks like a duck
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 00:00
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greige@bigpond.com (Greig Ebeling) wrote: >On Thu, 01 Jun 2000 16:40:39 GMT, none (Quarks like a duck) wrote: >>You're way behing on this discussion. The thermal load alone of the >>current nuclear waste in the US would overwhelm Yucca Mnt by 4 times. >Hardly surprising, most of it needs to remain in storage for another >few decades to cool down. Think about it. Aren't you misrepresenting >the situation by including ALL current nuclear waste? >>The fissures and leaks that are caused by the heat are an enourmous >>difficulty. There is a chance of nuclear explosion. June 10, 1999 Yucca payload grows LAS VEGAS SUN "The mountain is too small for the wastes," Jerry Szymanski, a former DOE geologist who now consults for Nevada's Yucca Mountain oversight office, said after the meeting. The proposed repository would become extremely hot with more radioactive wastes, he said. As radioactive wastes sit inside the mountain for thousands of years, the heat could change the rock and water running through its cracks, causing nuclear containers to break open and release radiation, he said.
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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: 10c480,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c480,public X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public X-Google-Thread: 102359,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid102359,public X-Google-Thread: fb19c,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb19c,public From: none (Quarks like a duck) Subject: Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste Date: 2000/06/04 Message-ID: <8hebga$rf3$1@slb2.atl.mindspring.net> X-Deja-AN: 631000661 References: <8f1vof$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$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net> <39345a3a.58079449@news.bigpond.com> <8h3kjd$h2l$1@slb6.atl.mindspring.net> <39362a95.176972890@news.bigpond.com> <8h63nj$2aj$1@slb2.atl.mindspring.net> <3937a5ea.49767935@news.bigpond.com> X-Server-Date: 4 Jun 2000 19:43:06 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Reply-To: your mom Newsgroups: alt.engineering.nuclear,aus.environment.misc,aus.politics,sci.energy,sci.engr.mining,sci.environment.waste