Yes, my "intervention" on these questions are almost identical to Phillips and Huber...I like to think I educated them on the processes involved in energy and its importance to our species. So, yeah, indeed, and I'm quite proud of it. Leigh and Parenti just had a debate over nuclear energy last week on the Jacobin channel on YouTube.
The *Fernald Feed Materials Production Center* was not nor has it do much with commercial/civilian nuclear ENERGY. It was entirely a nuclear weapons program. Facts and context matter not just any misdeed proceeding or following the term "nuclear". The Center was no different, really, than Rocky Flats or Hanford nuclear reserves where all sorts of horrors of WMD were researched and created. The only real mixed use on I'm aware of is at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the one in Los Alamos. Louis, my only word of advice here is to try to have a discussion without starting it off to throw mud. It only gets us both dirty. Andrew, what you write is more urban legend than fact. One can "geologically dispose" of High Level Waste (HLW). As of now it just sits, quite safely in the stainless steel lined concrete. If you took it all, it wouldn't fill up a COSTCO store. Has to do with density, again. At any rate, like others, I'm opposed to burying it 3000 feet underground because it would be a huge waste. We close the fuel cycle (uranium --> reactor fuel --> fast reactor fuel) as the Chinese and Russians are doing right now and all that valuable HLW becomes feed stock for that next generation of reactors...why the hell would anyone want to bury the stuff? At the point when the cycle is complete one is left with a lot less HLW and it is dangerous for only a 100 years. Much easier to manage than it is now. No human society under socialism is ever going to be able to function without fission energy replacing all forms of transportation fuel and generation. Not unless the 17th Century level of technology is believed to be so grand... David Walters -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1493): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1493 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76806020/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
