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In article <5vuhgu$bj3@flatland.dimensional.com>, hyperion@dimensional.com 
says...
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>In article <3422BA3D.58F7@no.com>, Ambrose Small  <no@no.com> wrote:
>>Hyperion Systems wrote:
>>It can be done.  It just takes commitment and cooperation between the
>>public, the politicians, and the scientific community.
>>It amazes me that we have had fission power plants for over forty
>>years now, and people still have this kind of fear of nuclear power.
>
>OK, like I asked the other person, just name one safe disposal method.  It
>amazes me that in forty years or fission power, the waste is still just
>piled up somewhere "out of the way."  Forty years of human thought, more
>time than I have been alive, and no one has figured out how to dispose of
>the waste.
>
>>Kind of reminds me how people used to electrocute dogs back in the
>>late 19th century to show how deadly a.c. electricity was.  They
>>were trying to show how foolish and deadly the idea of running it 
>>into your home would be.
>
>A bad comparison at best.  Electricity is safe the moment the current is
>cut off (except for devices which retain eletricity for whatever reason). 
>Nuclear waste is toxic and deadly for THOUSANDS of years.  Humans only
>have a few thoudand years or recorded history! 
>
>- John

Dal Wagner replies:

John you should try walking into your back yard some day with a geiger counter 
and approach any of those granite rocks you will find.

I guarrantee that John will never walk  into his back yard again.

Background radiation has been constantly around us since the sun first shone.  
Your chances of dying from the sun's radiation or nuclear decay in your 
own backyard are  higher that the chance of your death were you living on a 
smoke stack or cooling towers at one of those "nasty" nuclear reactors.