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Article #94Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste
From: R. Van Natta
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 00:00
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 00:00
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Thank God someone said this! Fred McGalliard <frederick.b.mcgalliard@boeing.com> wrote in message news:391C48E0.27163060@boeing.com... > > > Tim O'Flaherty wrote: > >... > > >The US already has more than 4 times the amount of waste that Yucca > > >Mountain can store due to thermal limits. > > > > > > > Not to neglect the rest of your questions, the issue is why are we > > contemplating making more when we haven't answered these questions. > > Tim. It seems that the question is not can we safely store this junk, > but when we will decide to allow any one of the proposed schemes to be > implemented. "we" have rammed a bung up the hole of this particular > horse, removed it's balls, and refused to feed or water it, hoping > apparently that it will eventually die. I wonder frankly if we have more > to fear from our grandchildren laughing at us for being so afraid of > nuclear power that we actually made it worse by failing to safely store > the waste when we could easily have done so, or if they will curse us > for the dark and miserable conditions that we leave them in by killing > this useful power source off.
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