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Article #41Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste
From: Don Libby
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 00:00
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 00:00
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Tim O'Flaherty wrote: > > Don Libby wrote in message <3944F2EA.787CC142@tds.net>... > >"D.A.Kopf" wrote: > > >Since a closed nuclear fuel cycle is adequate to handle this load > >indefinitely, > > How many Yucca Mts? How many Sellafields? How many billions of taxpayer > dollars. Surely not enough to fill my hat. > If this was all such a good idea the bankers would be lining up to > invest. They are not. Moody's investor service lowered the credit rating > for the majority of nuclear invested utilities. Why? Stranded costs. Investing in long-term projects carries risks. One of those risks is a change in the political or institutional environment. Investors tend to shy away from uncertainty. > The > same reason why utilities with aging nukes are scrambling to unload them at > bargain basement prices. Nobody wants to be caught holding the hot potato. Nobody except Entergy and Unicom/Peco. > The continued use of nukes for power gaurantees an ever growing mass of > high, intermediate and low level waste that will long outlive any gain from > the power generated. That spells UN-sustainability. That's a definition of sustainability I haven't seen before. > The waste problem is > not solved. Catchy phrases like "closed nuclear fuel cycle" sound great but > that's small comfort if you live downstream of the reprocessing plant. Nothing I have said will make you change your mind, and I have nothing more to add. I'll just reiterate my belief that the hazard is a function of both the level of exposure to biological harm and the length of exposure time. I'm open to risk assessment and cost/benefit analyses of all the available options. Some people aren't -- so be it. That's what democracy is for. -dl
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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: 10c480,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c480,public X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public From: Don Libby <no.spam@tds.net> Subject: Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste Date: 2000/06/12 Message-ID: <39451C5B.D6ABA710@tds.net> X-Deja-AN: 633625892 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8f2n6g$61p$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> <391C48E0.27163060@boeing.com> <N4mT4.40348$Xk2 <3939da71.57203458@news.bigpond.com> <1ai%4.1367$vV5.8002@newsfeed.slurp.net> <393e22ee.49400070@news.bigpond.com> <xys%4.7180$qS3.18260@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> <393E730F.2F71D6CD@tds.net> <CCX%4.7945$qS3.20020@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> <3940d93f.51465324@news.bigpond.com> <qqq05.8588$qS3.21579@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> <iKr05.13141$N4.476133@ozemail.com.au> <Q%r05.12523$F9.386702@news1.gvcl1.bc.home.com> <3942D053.82030642@dakx.com> <mp%05.13951$F9.438649@news1.gvcl1.bc.home.com> <3944DC10.12B11F08@dakx.com> <3944F2EA.787CC142@tds.net> <i4815.9348$qS3.24351@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@tds.net (TDS.NET help Desk 1-888-815-5992) X-Trace: ratbert.tds.net 960830577 204.71.148.119 (Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:22:57 CDT) Organization: Replace "no.spam" with "dlibby" to reply by e-mail MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: no.spam@tds.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:22:57 CDT Newsgroups: alt.engineering.nuclear,aus.environment.misc,aus.politics,sci.energy,sci.engr.mining,sci.environment.waste