I can't count the amount of tritium in my house on two hands. And we always have lots of bananas! ;)
I used to be stuck in a situation where I was forced to breath molten "depleted" uranium smoke though :/ On Apr 1, 2016 10:13 PM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> wrote: > I do have chunk of uranium in a drawer in my kitchen. People do not have > a realistic sense of the relative risk. > > *From:* Chuck McCown <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, April 01, 2016 9:11 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Tesla Model 3... who else is getting one? > > What exactly do you imagine a radiation “leak” is. > We are talking uranium dioxide. A ceramic pellet. Does not burn, melt, > dissolve, evaporate... > > *From:* Stefan Englhardt <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, April 01, 2016 7:53 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Tesla Model 3... who else is getting one? > > Reprocessing does not solve the problem. This waste does not vanish for an > insane amount of time. No covering material lasts long enough. You have to > reencapsule it to keep radiation inside. You need a place to store it and > watch nothing leaks. Our power companies try to split the responsibility to > a separate company. They know this company will die sometimes in the future. > > -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- > Von: Chuck McCown <[email protected]> > Datum: 02.04.2016 03:04 (GMT+01:00) > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [AFMUG] Tesla Model 3... who else is getting one? > > And why are you thinking the waste needs to be encapsulated? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis > > Just reprocess it. And really it is not that dangerous. A tanker of > chlorine or ammonia is much more dangerous. > > > *From:* Stefan Englhardt <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, April 01, 2016 6:56 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Tesla Model 3... who else is getting one? > > Nuclear is very expensive. If you calculate the cost of moving and > reencapsulating the waste for some thousand years. Your ancestors will > learn that no energy company will exist long enough to take responsibility > for the waste they generated. This will be done by the tax payer. > > -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- > Von: Josh Luthman <[email protected]> > Datum: 01.04.2016 22:18 (GMT+01:00) > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [AFMUG] Tesla Model 3... who else is getting one? > >
