"However to all those who try to assure us that nuclear is non
poluting
have you so soon forgotten Chernobyl.
It simply saves its polution to be released in one catastrophy.
Then there is question of spent fuel which is just being hidden
at the
present.
John and Muddy"
For an interesting way on dealing with power plant spent fuel
material, read Larry Nivens book "All the Myriad Ways". A more
realistic solution would be to put it all in glass bricks
(chemically stable), fence off a not to large section of desert
(5-8 square miles of Death Valley) and stack the bricks behind
barbed wire with signs every 50 feet "You will die if you pass
this fence". Save the material until it cools off or we find a
better use for it (recycling, yes?) Idiots who tresspass will
clean themselves from the gene pool. Second option, drop the
bricks into geological subduction zones (deep ocean trenches
mostly) for the ultimate in recycling. Problem is that
uranium/plutonium for fission reactors is also a finite resource
that will one day be used up like coal/oil. Need to develop
renewable resources such as fusion (engineering problems, Marin
get on it!.
=====
Robert D. Ries
SSgt, USAF
Burwell, England
"With friends like these..."
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