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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Ish who wrote (165575)7/28/2001 7:48:03 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
All the wastes ever produced by US reactors would be a pile 15 ft high the size of a football field. All the materials can be safely stored in a number of geologic formations. But political fud is in the way.

As to refitting old plants. The same cost consideration goes to many structures. The technology and materials today are better. The process of any retrofit can cause unseen damage and the original materials have a design life. Getting past the endless greens FUD on a retrofit is impossible.

I think the 300 years worth of coal can be used in the future to make oil and gas and other hydrocarbons. If the CO2 is going to increase anyway, I see doing all to delay it does no harm.

tom watson tosiwmee
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