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To: LoLoLoLita who wrote (21227)5/2/1998 7:34:00 PM
From: Ish  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
David,

I live close to the safest nuke plant in the world, the Illinois Power plant at Clinton, Illinois. Was built on a 400 million budget and came in at 4 billion. A few booboos in the building. Safest? Yep, the sucker has been shut down for two years for safety violations. Shut down is pretty safe, eh? The sniffers are 15 miles from the plant/lake, when they pick up radiation the warning blows to get off the lake.

Bill



To: LoLoLoLita who wrote (21227)5/3/1998 4:43:00 AM
From: Grainne  Respond to of 108807
 
David, I do try to avoid airplanes and hospitals already. There is not much radon in northern California, as I understand. The San Francisco Bay Area is a little radical. Several towns post "Nuclear Free Zone" signs at the city limits. There is an environmental movement centered in Germany which suggests not sleeping on metal bed frames, or near alarm clocks, or under electric blankets, because of magnetic field disturbances. While I am not neurotic about things like this, I do try to be as natural as I can in all areas of my life where I have some control.



To: LoLoLoLita who wrote (21227)5/4/1998 2:21:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Open Q about nuclear power.
I understand that an operating nuke is pretty clean.
My reservations "kick in" once the fuel is spent, and is a mix of way-hot fission products mixed with a fair bit of the original fissionable material. Say, plutonium, with its ~25Kyr half-life.
Is there a safe, affordable way to deal with the spent fuel?