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re: select a power source for my home state
26 dec 1995
john mccarthy wrote:
>nick pine includes:
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> does this include the cost of fuel disposal,
> decommissioning, entombment, or pinkerton guards to watch
> over the site for 50,000 years?
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>why would you want pinkerton guards? what precisely do you have in mind?
nuclear waste has a very long dangerous lifetime, no? and we don't really
know how to keep it from running amok in the environment for even a hundred
years yet... the oldest manmade structures on earth are what, 5000 years old?
and they have had their problems, not all anticipated. meanwhile, many of our
governments and corporations seem to feel that 3 months is a very long time.
it may be arrogant to presume that we know anything about how to contain
nuclear waste on that time scale, no matter how good our designs.
nick, repeating an obvious truth, to people will not listen.
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