Stop with the red herring on nuclear power ...
Furthermore, natural uranium deposits (far, far worse than by-products) in various portions of the world have undergone earthquakes and other natural disasters. There is no water table involved here. That's the difference. Earth (like water in the ocean when subs/ships sink), makes an absolutely awesome insulator to gamma (among other) radiation. The issue is when there is a water is the table and flowing under the deposits. Again, not an issue here.
Right now general industrial radioactive waste from other uses than nuclear fission sit in temporary containers. So even taking nuclear power out of the equation, we have to store our normal waste generation from industrial sources somewhere as well.
I've driven by dozens of "temporary" nuclear waste dumps over the years -- all publicly known thanx the the Freedom of Information Act. This includes the nuclear waste sitting at Boeing, just outside the St. Louis International. What if a plane crashed into it?
When people like yourself stop relaying the rhetoric, and realize there is not only massive, existing nuclear waste (mainly from weapons production), but regular generation for non-power generating sources, maybe we can address it. Until the, you're just part of the problem. You prevent us from being able to store it.
And we're generating more every day, from sources outside of nuclear power generation. From sources of everyday, common use -- from medical to the smoke detector in your house. If you want to stop all those uses to rid new waste generation, by all means, fight those too! Until then, you just look like an ignorant fool to many in the industry, even if they are the only minority that actually knows all this reality.
When will this red herring die? Radioactive waste is a general issue for us beyond what is produced by nuclear fission reactors.
France doesn't have a desert like we do (or the Russians, for that matter, among a few, former Soviet Republics).
Actually, this is just more rhetoric. Yucca Mountain has repeatedly been shown it will contain waste for at least 10,000 years, if not longer.
Furthermore, natural uranium deposits (far, far worse than by-products) in various portions of the world have undergone earthquakes and other natural disasters. There is no water table involved here. That's the difference. Earth (like water in the ocean when subs/ships sink), makes an absolutely awesome insulator to gamma (among other) radiation. The issue is when there is a water is the table and flowing under the deposits. Again, not an issue here.
Right now general industrial radioactive waste from other uses than nuclear fission sit in temporary containers. So even taking nuclear power out of the equation, we have to store our normal waste generation from industrial sources somewhere as well.
I've driven by dozens of "temporary" nuclear waste dumps over the years -- all publicly known thanx the the Freedom of Information Act. This includes the nuclear waste sitting at Boeing, just outside the St. Louis International. What if a plane crashed into it?
When people like yourself stop relaying the rhetoric, and realize there is not only massive, existing nuclear waste (mainly from weapons production), but regular generation for non-power generating sources, maybe we can address it. Until the, you're just part of the problem. You prevent us from being able to store it.
And we're generating more every day, from sources outside of nuclear power generation. From sources of everyday, common use -- from medical to the smoke detector in your house. If you want to stop all those uses to rid new waste generation, by all means, fight those too! Until then, you just look like an ignorant fool to many in the industry, even if they are the only minority that actually knows all this reality.
