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Article #2083Re: Nuclear power far from clean
From: Michael Sierchio
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:00
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meron@cars3.uchicago.edu wrote: > 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. Without reference to any particular technology, let me observe that engineers always have solutions -- whether they are politically feasible or scientifically sound is sometimes questionable. My point about waste is that coal and petroleum plants also produce extremely toxic waste that must be disposed of. Nuclear is far from clean, except when compared with burning fossil fuels and, to some extent, burning *anything* in the presence of air (incl. H).
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,23455019b40da768,start X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: f4886,931b96b462da1f38 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4886,public X-Google-Thread: 10b271,931b96b462da1f38 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,public X-Google-Thread: f824f,23455019b40da768,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,23455019b40da768,start X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public From: Michael Sierchio <Michael.Sierchio@Sun.Com> Subject: Re: Nuclear power far from clean Date: 1997/09/22 Message-ID: <3426CEDB.6F5B@Sun.Com> X-Deja-AN: 274807417 References: <3421DF24.C26B8564@compact.com> <3422620C.57971318@geocities.com> <5vu0kh$5i2@flatland.dimensional.com> <3422BA3D.58F7@no.com> <5vuhgu$bj3@flatland.dimensional.com> <EGruGr.JEJ@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: Oversized Metaphysics Newsgroups: sci.chem,sci.physics,ba.general,bc.general,ca.general