Nuclear Waste: Achilles' Heel of the Fake Green Technology
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/us/17nuke.html?ex=1360904400&en=491bf20adcc07c20&ei=5088&p...
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WASHINGTON — Forgotten but not gone, the waste from more than 100 nuclear reactors that the federal government was supposed to start accepting for burial 10 years ago is still at the reactor sites, at least 20 years behind schedule. But it is making itself felt in the federal budget.
Each reactor typically creates about 20 tons of waste a year, which is approximately two new casks, at roughly $1 million each. If a repository or interim site opened, clearing the backlog would take decades, experts say. At present, waste is in temporary storage at 122 sites in 39 states.
"Accelerating Hanford Cleanup"
http://www.archive.org/details/acc300
The first two minutes of "Accelerating Hanford Cleanup" are eye opening and the amount of radioactive waste and work needed there is staggering.
NO NEW NUKES.
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Number1BadBoy
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You've confused Hanford, which was a weapons plutonium production site, with the 104 nuclear power reactors which have done nothing but generate electricity.
The waste from Hanford is the USA's responsibility, plain and simple.
There is no 'ever increasing' bill for Americans. Management of the waste from the power plants has already been paid for by a 0.1¢/kWh tax.
- 3 years ago
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Number1BadBoy
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Kilowatt_Kid
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We still have to get smarter on handling nuclear material through it's lifecycle.
It's fine to talk other forms of power generation for new implementations, but switching now still leaves a gaping problem: We have aging power facilities & naval vessels right now with deadly waste products, and our kids are inheriting shameful places like Yucca Mountain.
I suggest putting some attention to improved (automated) mining methods and neutralizing or rendering these materials inert.
- 4 years ago
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Kilowatt_Kid
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dbocaz
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And you should see the health problems in places where the mine uranium like here in Grants, New Mexico. So many former miners are really ill and there is an entire community with high rates of cancer near a former open pit uranium mine. Now they want to open the mines again to supply the new demand.
Wind and solar please everyone!
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dbocaz
