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,FREEMAIL_FROM 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 14:32:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT: Nuclear Waste (Was Re-Marketing Ada) Date: 17 Nov 2003 14:32:13 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <3FB0B57D.6070906@noplace.com> <3FB22125.1040807@noplace.com> <3FB3751D.5090809@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.102.146.44 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1069108334 31336 127.0.0.1 (17 Nov 2003 22:32:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:32:14 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2594 Date: 2003-11-17T14:32:13-08:00 List-Id: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote in message news:... > 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. > 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).