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To: Brumar89 who wrote (191440)	7/11/2006 7:05:14 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

25,000 shipments over the next quarter century. Criss-crossing the country on their way to Yucca Mountain. I have no idea how France does it but I figure however they do it today will develop problems they didn't anticipate tomorrow. Yes, I agree with you that somewhere along the way to $7/gallon gas price elasticity might actually show up in the US. However, this also provides impetus to things like oil sands or shales or whatever. It would be better if more of it went to non-fossil fuel alternatives. I'd rather not import, I'd rather we grow our own cane or grass or whatever it is. IMO regulations and laws when done well actually bring us closer to our image of a 'free market' than does the absence of said regulations and laws. They can provide the level field, the free flow of information, the trustworthy and efficient transactions, the 'fairness' that we imagine a free market consists of. "...The Department of Energy (DOE) hasn't disclosed exactly how it plans to get all that nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain, except to say that it will be transported by rail and heavily guarded truck convoys over the interstate highway system, and require between one and six shipments every day for 24 years. But Dr. Robert Halstead, who's been a transportation adviser to the state of Nevada since 1988, says if you take a map of the U.S. transportation system and mark the locations of nuclear facilities, you get a pretty good idea of potential shipping routes. “They would heavily affect cities like Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, in the Chicago metropolitan area, in Omaha,” says Halstead. “Coming out of the south, the heaviest impacts would be in Atlanta, in Nashville, St. Louis, Kansas City, moving across through Salt Lake City, through downtown Las Vegas, up to Yucca Mountain. And the same cities would be affected by rail shipments as well.” ..." cbsnews.com ========== "... What's to be done with 52,000 tons (47,000 metric tons) of dangerously radioactive spent fuel from commercial and defense nuclear reactors? With 91 million gallons (345 million liters) of high-level waste left over from plutonium processing, scores of tons of plutonium, more than half a million tons of depleted uranium, millions of cubic feet of contaminated tools, metal scraps, clothing, oils, solvents, and other waste? And with some 265 million tons (240 million metric tons) of tailings from milling uranium ore—less than half stabilized—littering landscapes?" magma.nationalgeographic.com