This, again, misses the point. IMnHO.

It isn't that we KNOW for certain that Yucca will prove to be as stable as
Oklo. That would be the best guess, based on scientific methods, but no
scientist worth his or her salt will claim that his or her prediction is
100% reliable.

The POINT is that it is better to have the radioactive material in a place
were we KNOW about it rather than in a place where mother nature (bless her
homicidal heart) can belch it up at us at some unpredictable point in the
future. 

Promoting nuke plants stimulates the mining of nuke fuel, thereby tracking
it down and moving it OUT of places where we didn't know it was and INTO
places where we DO know where it is.

Again, spent fuel is not fundamentally any more dangerous than naturally
occurring radioactive sources. At least we KNOW what we are doing with our
waste. We have no idea how Gia will use its "waste".

And by avoiding nuke power, we subject ourselves to coal power, "natural"
gas power, and oil power, all of which are killing us faster than all of our
nuke waste would if we just put it back right where we got it.

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James.

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
wouter van ooijen
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 09:08
To: 'Microcontroller discussion list - Public.'
Subject: RE: [OT] Just wondering..

> We wouldn't. The point is that the above example shows that 
> for the given conditions that natural reactor was exposed to 
> the granite, sandstone and clays do a good job at keeping the 
> plutonium and other wastes in place. You can then use that 
> knowledge, and other geological knowledge, to make sure that 
> a proposed dump will be exposed to similar conditions.

I disagree. You are confusing correlation with cause-and-effect. Without
much much more proof (much more than 1 non-random sample) I do not trust
anyone to correctly identify the factors that made this site stable. Not
for anything as important as dumping spent fuel.

Wouter van Ooijen

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