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> BTW, since Yucca Mountain doesn't look like it's going to be > done for a while and you seem to have a preference to live > next door to a uranium plant, mind if we store a few > thousand harmless spent rods in your back yard? We only > have over 54,000 metric tones of it now in the > US.... Nah, > didn't think so. > > http://www.ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/04dec/RS22001.pdf > > > -john If I was forced to live either "next door" to an oil/coal fire utility plant or a nuclear plant, the nuclear plant would win hands down. Acid rain can kill the environment just as effectively as radioactive fallout and in far greater numbers. >From what I've read the uproar over using Yucca Mountain as a storage facility >is temporary. It's still likely to become the ultimate repository of our >nation's radioactdive waste, for better or worse. Are you from Nevada? Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com
