From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,60e2922351e0e780 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-17 09:44:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: OT: Nuclear Waste (Was Re-Marketing Ada) References: <3FB0B57D.6070906@noplace.com> <3FB22125.1040807@noplace.com> <3FB3751D.5090809@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:29:41 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1069090144 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:29:04 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:29:04 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2578 Date: 2003-11-17T12:29:41-05:00 List-Id: Ooooh boy! I should leave this alone, but can't: Russ wrote: > "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote in message news:... >>I think most of us would agree that Ada was ahead of its time >>when it came out. By 1995, I believe the "market" had probably >>already accepted C/C++ as the dominant language, largely due to >>its widespread use in operating systems (UNIX + NT), and major ... > How do we get the word out about Ada? I don't know, but do I know that > Ada is not the only superior technology that is being squandered due > to ignorance. Nuclear power is another classic example of a superior > technology that is being squandered due to abysmal ignorance. If you > have some spare time, go to my web pages on it at > http://RussP.org/nucpower.htm , then click on "Some Amazing Facts > about Nuclear Power". I bet you'll be surprised at what you discover. > (OK, that ends my off-topic rant.) Here is a quote from that site about Nuclear Waste: In a rationally planned and developed nuclear power program, spent reactor fuel would be shipped to a reprocessing plant to remove valuable components. The residue, containing nearly all of the radioactivity produced in the reactor, is called high-level waste. (In the US program, where spent fuel is simply potted and encased, reprocessing is not currently done or even planned, but it is done in other countries.) ... Note! "In the US program... reprocessing is not currently done or even planned." This is true AFAIK, in Canada also. There are pools all over the place just gathering more nuclear waste. They keep gathering it, leaving it to the next generation to figure out what to do with it. I think this is criminal. What active research has there been to deal with the problem? How much do they spend each year in working on this problem? Where are the results? Don't be fooled. The next generations will be the ones stuck with the problem and the economic costs of dealing with it. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg