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

[18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)]

"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote in message news:<Az7ub.3669$ZF1.458179@news20.bellglobal.com>...

> 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.
> </rant>

I think you've been fooled, but you are far from alone on this one.
The quantities of waste generated by nuclear power are so miniscule
that nuclear power plants can store -- literally, right on site -- the
waste they generate for *decades*. Yes, those "little pools" have been
accumulating, but that means that's because the so-called
"environmentalists" have been blocking long-term storage by all the
underhanded legal and political means at their disposal. Spreading
ignorance is their primary weapon.

If you read my little article, you would have learned the following
fact. If the US went completely nuclear for the next 10,000 years, the
amount of land needed for waste disposal would be roughly the same as
what is currently needed for two weeks worth of coal ash. That's
accounting for the extra space needed for the massive containers and
the spacing between them. And please note that the ash is far from the
worst part of coal waste. The gaseous emissions kill an estimated
10,000 to 50,000 Americans each year, but the media never reports
those deaths.

Studies have found that properly stored nuclear waste might kill one
person every century or so (I can't remember the exact figure off
hand, but it's several orders of magnitude less than the corresponding
figure for coal).