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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (286066)	8/12/2002 5:36:25 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Re: "There's probably not a better place on the globe for this waste than Yucca." >>> Actually - if the goal is total disposal for the term of the radioactivity - I think an ideal disposal site would be deep within a stable continental plate heading into a subduction zone... which would ultimately return the waste to the Earth's interior... if such a site could actually be found, and expense were no object. Re: "Our focus in Nevada should switch to getting ownership of the buried waste." >>> The Federal government has ownership once they accept delivery. Re: "Sometime over the next 50 or so years the technology to turn it into useful energy will make the 80,000 tons very valuable." >>> It's true that breeder reactors - if widely deployed - could ultimately make the present generation's waste valuable. Of course 'ultimately' could prove to be a very long time... what with the current low price for energy supplies. >>> What this Yucca disposal plan is proving to be (and note: I'm FOR a national disposal site, wherever it may be, because it is far LESS SAFE to leave high-level waste insecurely stored at hundreds of power plants across the country... I selfishly just don't want it anywhere near me <g>)... what this disposal plan is proving to be is a taxpayer-paid subsidy to the nuclear power industry... which industry has already been subsidized to the tune of nearly $1 Trillion over the past 49 years. >>> Note: the waste MUST be put somewhere safer than where it currently is... despite the great costs. But the public was always told that the nuclear power industry would pay for the costs of the 'perminent' disposal by themselves. >>> We have been told that ever since the dawn of the industry. (In fact, the industry actually pays a special tax into a government account supposedly to finance the disposal of waste, and the deconstruction of the plants themselves and disposal of their highly radioactive power cores at the end of their 30 to 50 year usable life... but that tax is WILDLY INSUFFICIENT to pay for the true costs... which will be borne by the taxpayers. >>> I think that if we as a nation want to have MASSIVE INDUSTRIAL SUBSIDIES, that's OK, it's a choice we can make... we should just be upfront about it with the taxpayers who are footing the bill - and that's something we haven't been.