🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 06 Jun 2000 21:27:35 GMT, none (Quarks like a duck) wrote:

>greige@bigpond.com (Greig Ebeling) wrote:
>
>>The Las Vegas Sun, is not a scientific reference.  The article
>>contains no verifiable information, it is nonsense.
>
>>On Sun, 04 Jun 2000 19:42:11 GMT, none (Quarks like a duck) wrote:
>
>>>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.
>>>
>
>You are not a scientific reference either.

Of course not.  But if I make an assertion (ala "Pu has been found to
migrate fast" [paraphrased]) then I would be willing to back that up
with a decent peer-reviewed study, or reference.

On this issue you have provided a Science article that apparently says
that Pu can dissolve in water more readily than previously thought
(though we do not know under what conditions, and therefore whether
that has relevance to the issue of nuclear waste disposal).  But you
have not provided any real world scientifically verifiable evidence
that it has actually happened.

And I have provided real-world scientific evidence that Pu does not
migrate very far, even when completely uncontained.


...Greig