Re: Nuclear power far from clean

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From: meron
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 00:00

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In article <5vuhgu$bj3@flatland.dimensional.com>, hyperion@dimensional.com (Hyperion Systems) writes:
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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.
>
Certainly it has been figured out.  Vitrify the waste and bury it in a 
stable geological foundation below the water table.  That it hasn't 
been implemented, is a matter of politics, not technology.

Mati Meron                      | "When you argue with a fool,
meron@cars.uchicago.edu         |  chances are he is doing just the same"

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From: meron@cars3.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: Nuclear power far from clean
Date: 1997/09/19
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