William Chops Westfield wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2006, at 7:50 AM, Bob Axtell wrote:
>
>   
>> In order to render Chernobyl safe, more than 500,000 men risked
>> sterility and worse in order to pour a concrete coffin  around
>> the radioactive  plant.
>>     
>
> Where does THAT number come from?  It seems extremely unlikely
> for any construction project to utilize that many people; consider
> that the total population of chernobyl at the time of the accident
> was about 100,000.
>   
I was just as astonished. I read it on the web within the last week, and 
NOT from an anti-nuke
site. The USSR took techs from all over the country to volunteer for 
20min stints as workers.
GOOGLE for it; I knew I'd be challenged on it.  Its there.

>   
>> It doesn't worry you that after 60 years of
>> trying, the waste problem still hasn't been "solved"?
>>
>>     
> Um, not particularly, since I find the current "requirements"
> for "solved" to be unrealistic.  Similar requirements applied to
> other energy sources would likely render them all unusable as
> well.  (Oh wait.  That's happening now re CO2 and global warming.)
>   
Hmmm.  I guess we could just put up a sign over the waste site like "Do 
Not Open for 15,000
Years" and hope for the best. But _I_ will try my best to keep America 
from firing these
things up again when there are GOOD, workable alternatives.
> BillW
>   

--Bob

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