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  • From: "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Unbelievable story...laugh or cry
  • Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:34:42 -0500

On 8/22/06, SISU! <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

They can and have [invented ways to undo toxic stuff] It's just expensive to
install scrubbers on
incinerators. I

Yeah, and since it costs money, it's going to require regulations to
make corporations use the remedies.


[The same with nuclear waste.] >
That's a whole 'nuther matter....
Radiation happens, whether we split atoms or not. Radon is the second
leading cause of lung cancer in the US, for example. ....Personally, I've
always favored the rebury the stuff
approach...dumping it in the ocean isn't a good idea, .

Yeah, everything that comes from the earth is radioactive. Coal-fired
electric generation plants give off more radiation that nuclear plants
do because coal contains substantial amounts of radioactive materials.
(Of course, if you're a terrorist, you'd rather bomb a nuclear plant
than a coal-fired plant, but that's another story -- though the
nuclear plant would be safer if it didn't have lots of spent fuel
lying around because there's no place to take it.)

Deep ocean disposal of very high-level nuclear waste would probably be
a safe disposal method. The Navy (IIRC) did some studies about what
happens if you dump highly radioactive material into deep ocean
trenches; evidently, it sinks in and is soon buried. Seismic processes
probably bury it beyond reach of any part of the biosphere, even the
deep ocean worms.

Lynda, do you have a link to the ocean-dumping story?

Marie




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