Re: Nuclear power far from clean

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From: Lloyd R. Parker
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 00:00

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Wil Maxwell (wmaxwell@geocities.com) wrote:
:      Ok John, How do you know Nuclear waste is toxic and deadly for thousands
: of years if nobody's ever been around long enough to see? Nuclear materieals
: have been around since the big bang, and they're all over the place! 

Underground is not "all over the place."  Would YOU take a few pounds of 
Pu and U waste and store it in your attic?


: You
: better find another planet to live on if you're worried about nuclear "waste".
: And then find a planet which isn't heated by a suns nuclear radiation. Infact,
: I'm sure you wouldn't have evolved into a human without the mutating effects
: of radiation.
:     Nuclear waste can be refined to be used again and again. It's just
: nobody's fronting the money for the experiments. 

Then it can't be -- it's not feasible, and it's also against our national 
policy.


: When it's buried miles under
: the ground, there isn't much to worry about. 


From how benign everybody here claims it is, why bury it?  Surely all the 
people claiming radiation is so friendly would volunteer to take some 
home and keep it, right?

: If NASA was involved, we could
: launch the waste and send it towards the sun where it would be vaporized
: without a trace.

Been considered and dismissed for a number of reasons.

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From: lparker@larry.cc.emory.edu (Lloyd R. Parker)
Subject: Re: Nuclear power far from clean
Date: 1997/09/23
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