Re: Nuclear power far from clean

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From: Hyperion Systems
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 00:00

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In article <34240d7e.246601394@news.enteract.com>,
John B. Hines <jhines@enteract.com> wrote:
>Sorry, but you are wrong.  My father worked as a chemist at Argonne
>National Lab in the late seventies and early 80's doing research on high
>level nuclear waste disposal.  He wrote several chapters of the book
>"Actinides in the environment"  which you can refer to if you want the
>nitty gritty details.

>The work involved taking rock samples, injecting them with radioactive
>material, then subjecting the rock to waterflows to simulate years of
>rain, then scanning the rock with a cat scanner, to see where the
>radioactive material goes.

Well, I am certainly not a nuclear scientist, but I would ask some
questions of your father.  By your post it appears that he worked on this
problem for a decade.  The problem lasts for thousands of years.  How can
a decade of research tell us what will happen a hundred years from now?  A
thousand?

- John

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From: hyperion@dimensional.com (Hyperion Systems)
Subject: Re: Nuclear power far from clean
Date: 1997/09/19
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