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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (135495)4/2/2001 4:14:50 PM
From: pgerassi  Read Replies (1) of 1584249
 
Dear Scumbria:

I would volunteer for a reprocessing facility being built with the safeguards being that the company running it has to have all its officers families live near the plant. That it have all of the safeguards currently required of the commercial power industry. Remember, I used to work at GE Medical in their nuclear camera and nuclear magnetic resonance imager plant in Pewaukee, WI., a few miles east of here. You get more radiation from the sun than you do a properly run reprocessing facility. The resulting concentrated wastes could be separated into isotope groups where half-lifetimes are roughly similar. Most radioactive waste is not all that long lasting (< a few hundred years). The really long lasting stuff is either burnable in a reactor (plutonium, thorium, etc.) into a short time form or is not all that radioactive.

Remember the rule, if it is highly radioactive, it does not last as long (Co-60 has a halflife of 5 years so, in 100 years it is a millionth of the sample). The best place to put nuclear wastes would be in a subduction zone under the ocean. It will take it at least a few million years to reappear, if ever, and then be diluted with all of the other lava that is spewed out.

CO2 has an almost infinite halflife.

Pete
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