At 12:57 PM Friday 5/4/2007, Dan Minette wrote:

>While the present disposal plan isn't perfect, it is many orders of
>magnitude better than this.  The waste is placed in expensive barrels, and
>put in a chamber in close to impermeable rock.  It's not perfectly
>impermeable, but the permeability is in the picodarcie to microdarcie range,
>instead of the millidarcie range.


Since that unit was unfamiliar to me, I tried looking it 
up.  Apparently most people spell it with a "-y" rather than an "-ie" . . .

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darcy>

(BTW, Dan, would you mind if I quoted from your excellent posts on 
the subject, without your name, of course?)


-- Ronn!  :)



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