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To: jweiner who wrote (6692)12/24/1997 11:23:00 AM
From: Caxton Rhodes  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
Jweinwr, The handling of waste at the proposed high level and low level depositories again is not a technical problem, it is political. I absolutely agree with you that mishndling of radioactive products has also rightly contributed to the downfall of beneficial uses of nuclear energy. But don't forget to compare it to other similar problems that have gone fairly much unnoticed by the public. For instance, I wonder why every single gas station I know has had its tanks replaced in the last couple of years? Toxification of groundwater there is about ten million times worse, but hey, the problems to big to worry about and nobody will give up their cars right? I am not defending poor handling practices and its consequencces, just trying to point out the comparison to other screwups and their relative consequences. The public focuses on very small problems associated with nuclear this or that, but ignores the big problems like chemiccal groundwater contamination, air polution, green house effect, etc. The tecnology currently available to address long term storage of high or low level(medical etc.)is virtually risk free (beleive it or not), any problems that could come up (including groundwater shifting due to earthquakes), can be detected years in advance of any required actions before safety would be at risk. Okay I'm done and you may have the last word.

Caxton
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