The root cause is the Federal government failing to deliver the agreed (and taxed for) Yucca Mountain nuclear storage facility. When we have a major on-site storage failure, that can be laid directly at Obama's door.
--- On Tue, 3/22/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:50146] Re: millisieverts To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 11:01 PM Japan is not the only one with runaway millisieverts, 5 times over capacity... U.S. nuclear waste problem gains new scrutiny Japan's nuclear accident has focused attention on the U.S. practice of packing spent-fuel pools at power plants far beyond their capacity, which some scientists call a serious compromise in safety. http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-spent-fuel-us-20110323,0,4358762.story?page=2&utm_medium=feed&track=rss&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20latimes%2Fnews%2Fscience%20(L.A.%20Times%20-%20Science)&utm_source=feedburner Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr Erie PA Linux and Metric User and Enforcer Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑ On Mar 22, 2011, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: It appears to be more than just lots of millisieverts, spent rods exposed to the elements.... March 23 (Bloomberg) -- Some people just shouldn’t be in charge of high-risk nuclear facilities http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-22/nuclear-fallout-comes-with-aura-of-arrogance-mycle-schneider.html Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr Erie PA Linux and Metric User and Enforcer Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑
