I choose not to live near either one, but down wind of several (iodine tablets in the medicine cabinet). I quest for clean, independent, and distributed power generation. A fuel cell in every home and a solar grid / wind mill on every roof I say. I live in the land of nuclear power (1st) and ethanol production (2nd)... Illinois. Ironically neither of which give me cheap electric or lower gas pump prices. With no where to go, the spent rods keep piling up. Yucca only increases the risk of exposure when they get loaded on rail cars and paraded West by routes that pass through highly populated areas. http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/at_a_glance/states/statesil.html
I suppose if they were pebble bed units rather than pressurized light water I would have a different opinion. That could potentially be the automobile motor of the future... full circle back to steam power. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor -john -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:45 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Another Plug-In Article Steck sez: ... > 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
