Posted on 05/02/2003 9:10:44 AM PDT by WaveThatFlag
Every time I see a Discovery Channel special on nuclear waste and Yucca Mountain they always fail to bring up the accepted fact that recycling the waste is likely to be economical within the next 25 to 50 years. Instead, they always fixate on the 10,000 year half-life, and how Indian Medicin Men, and Bushman Witch Doctors were consulted to consult on the proper marker, because english may have vanished by then and we need to be able to convey a universal "keep out" message. Makes for good TV, but it is typical useless liberal nonsense.
There's a better way than burying it- other countries have, for decades, recycled the stuff:
US Nuclear Power Debate
... The Bush administration also wants to explore new technology to recycle nuclear
fuel, increasing its efficiency and possibly reducing its danger. ...
Other info:
Numatec - the Tri-Cities' 'French connection'
... Numatec other parent is Cogema, the owner and operator of facilities used to produce
and recycle nuclear fuel, including many designed and built by SGN. ...
Nuclear Electricity
... gas equivalent). • Uranium offers a long-term source of energy. Unlike
fossil fuels, we can recycle nuclear fuel. We can recover ...
[MMA Alumni] Helping out MMA Nuclear Employed Alumni
... Many MMA Grads are employed in the Nuclear Power industry, ever since President Carter
killed the national plans to recycle nuclear fuel as was always intended ...
[PDF] U. S. Nuclear Waste Policy: Reaching Critical Mass
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
... An Aside: Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Overseas In addition to the United States,
only two other countries don't recycle nuclear fuel as a matter of national ...
Salon.com Technology | Nukes now!
... Other countries, such as Japan and France -- which gets about 80 percent of its
electricity from nuclear power -- recycle nuclear fuel, but President Ford ...
Why do I have a feeling this guy is buying natrural gas futures?
It's an East Coast thing, apparently. If you don't like power-consuming industry, send it to Phoenix, home of America's largest nuclear plant. We could use the jobs.
Like CaptRon, I'm within 30 miles of the plant and have been voicing my opinion to legislators to ignore these voices of gloom and doom, whoever they are: it's a mystery still.
My advice to those who would fold like a cheap camera on the issue: Buy some KI and then jump up onto the hamster wheels to generate enough electricity for New York City.
The idiots who advocate the IP shutdown ignore the reality of the situation. And that is that the Northeast is the next California waiting to happen. They haven't built a new plant in a long time and have thrown away perfectly good ones (Maine Yankee, Shoreham) for no rational reason. The last thing they need to do is throw away a perfectly reliable and safe power generator for no good reason. The Northeast uses a fair amount of oil-fired generation, which in itself is kind of unusual, and leaves them vulnerable because the region also uses a fair amount of oil for home heating use. A significant amount of electricity is brought in from north of the border. If the canucks tell us to stuff it, we're taking care of our own first (which is a perfectly reasonable thing for them to do if they get into a similar pinch, which they seem to be doing), then where are the wackos in the Northeast going to go for electricity? I guess Hildebeast and Chuckie will just get a law passed making electricity shortages illegal. Yeah, there ya go...
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