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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

Someone once proposed putting nuclear waste in a
rocket and sending it to the sun.  Might work? until a
rocket blew up on takeoff.
Van Dell


--- Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/22/07, KNat <knat AT sprintmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > In the children's bedrooms of the people who got
> the gain from it? The
> > companies that produced it, the lobbiests, the
> politicians, the
> > universities declaring it safe. Add the people in
> university programs
> > and companies promoting to produce more. Surely in
> such minute
> > quantities they'd all agree it was a safe level.
> Otherwise they can
> > spend that gain on finishing their usage. It has
> to be considered in the
> > stream not as a separate entity!
> 
> High-level RW isn't safe (the very hottest stuff you
> can walk up to,
> but you don't walk away). That's why it needs to be
> isolated.
> 
> I don't believe the government went into nuclear
> development with the
> understanding of how politically impossible it would
> be in this
> country to handle the stuff rationally.
> 
> Yes, of course, there's an industry, but there are
> also millions of
> people who are getting their electricity from
> nuclear power plants.
> The whole energy industry is dirty and destructive
> of the environment.
> Coal plants not only cause global warming, but they
> kill the miners
> who extract the coal and destroy the environment
> where the coal is
> extracted (lots of people in West Virginia are upset
> that their
> mountains are being de-topped and the slag pushed
> into streams. Plus,
> coal being an element extracted from the earth
> releases radioactivity
> when it is burned. The average coal plant releases
> more radioactivity
> to the general public than a nuclear plant does. No
> happy answers
> exist.
> >
> > I appreciate looking at disposal besides military
> use but injecting the
> > planet anywhere is a global decision, whether in
> the ocean or earth's
> > mantle. Keep responsibility with profit for a sane
> economy.
> >
> That's why I think the ocean trench solution should
> be studied by an
> international group of scientists. Look, we have the
> stuff, and
> pretending it will just go away isn't going to help
> much.
> 
> Marie
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