Re: OT: Nuclear Waste (Was Re-Marketing Ada)

[dmytrylavrov@fsmail.net (Dmytry Lavrov)]

> 
> But of course, the biggest shocker for those who haven't studied the 
> issue is that the net effect of nuclear power plants is to significantly 
> reduce the long-term exposure of the population to radiation.  Radon is 
> nasty.  It is a gas and has a long enough lifetime to seep from the 
> ground into enclosed places, then it decays into several other 
> radioactive isotopes, some of which are also biologically active.  (For 
> example, actiniums tends to accumulte in bones.)
> 
> Since nuclear reactors are designed to "burn-up" the radon emitted from 
> the uranium in the fuel, and capture the heat generated, as long as the 
> radon captured when mining the original ore is dealt with, the net risk 
> from nuclear power plants is negative--they save more lives than they 
> consume.  (This is true even if you add in the deaths associated with 
> the construction and decomissioning of the reactor.)

Statistics?Show me example of plant completly removed from somewhere.

Well,well,i said that i will not more reply to you,but that's enought
dumb to cause me to write something.

Ask yourself,
1:Are the plants used uranium from granite under my house?There's many
uranium
in granite.
2:Plants uses uranium from ocean(dissolved in water)?As with other
things,there's more uranium in ocean than in developing mines.
3:Do you know that radon half-life is 4 days or so?
4:When mining uranium,it causes more radon to escape (before several
half-lifes passed)?Are uranium mines normally under-ground enought
that it takes many half lifes for radon to escape?What when mine is
developed?It leaks more radon or what,assuming that there's lots(most)
of uranium left with concentration lesser than can be cheaply
processed.

How big precent of uranium(u238 ! ) reactors will use?
What you will do with waste?
What you will do with u238? Using it in armour and projectiles?
What with radon that in future escapes much simpler because u238 is
spreaded?

Risk on decomissioning:there's risk that all you're saying about radon
will not mean something because there will be some leaks again.At
processing waste,there's again leaks.Even small risk of Chernobil
causes many radiuactive isotops to "escape".

Why you so focussed on radon? There's leaks of tritium from
reactors(leaks of water from cooling system) at normal
exploatation.Half-life is 12 years or so.

About that tritium will stay in highter
atmosphere after terroristic act:Water is lighter than heavy water and
all our water don't stay in highter atmosphere.Can you explain why,and
then apply it to tritium?.
Also,tritium is quite hard to detect,because it emmits electrons with
13Kev(that anyway enought to damage DNA if tritium is inside body.)One
way to detect is to put probe into detector,that need special
dosimeters that aren't avaliable for public check.

You're now truing to prove most-dumbest thing in that thread:that
nuclear reactors does not increases radioactivity TODAY.Yes,it's
decreases radioactivity _of our olanet including under-ground_ for far
future because burns some uranium,but because all industry also
spreads uranium on surface it does not decreases radioactivity on
surface for that far future.Because of plants we have cheap u238
,cheap enought to use it instead of lead.Actually i think that mining
lead for guns also bad thing,but you're now talking about
radioactivity,right?