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hyperion@dimensional.com (Hyperion Systems) wrote:

>In article <34230c54.246303115@news.enteract.com>,
>John B. Hines <jhines@enteract.com> wrote:
>>Burying in rock works quite well.
>>Canada's approach of enclosing it in concrete, above ground, where it
>>can be seen, inspected and guarded, works good.
>
>You're kidding, right?  We'll just stick it in a big hole, and it'll just
>go away, right?  And those concrete slabs would make a rather shortsighted
>solution, don't you think?  It might work now, but what about all the
>waste to come, for the next couple of hundred generations?  What a nice
>present to give them.

As opposed to digging it out of the ground?  The point is, if we don't
know what to do with it,  put it somewhere where we can keep an eye on
it, until we do.

>>The amount of waste from commercial power plants is minuscule compared
>>to the waste from arms production.  And from the news reports from
>>washington state, they don't even follow the same procedures that
>>commercial reactors do.
>
>How much radioactive toxic waste is OK?

When was the last time you heard of a commercial plant having an
explosion in a plutonium holding tank?   Read _TODAY'S_ news for the
latest from hanford wa.

The military generates a 100 lbs of waste for every pound generated by
power plants.  And instead of trying to dispose of the waste in public,
with endless hearings, protests, and public comment, the military does
what ever it wants with the shit, and clamps "national secuity" on it.

If your worried about nuclear waste, your attentions towards power
plants is misplaced.

Do you realize that the entire amount of spent nuclear fuel from
commercial reactors could fit on a single football field?

I can only assume that you would turn down life-saving treatments, if
they use nuclear materials?  You realize that the bottle holding the
treatment, the syringe that delivers it, the needle, gloves, gowns, etc
are all considered "nuclear waste" and require special handling?  

Or how about your smoke detector?  Most have a radioactive source in
them, americium in most cases, much more nasty than plutonium or uranium
that your worried about.

Radioactivity is part of nature.  Go back to school, learn about it, and
get on with your life.