On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:33 PM, James Newton wrote: > My point is that we currently have mountains (plural) and plains and caves > and back yards full (to a lesser concentration) of nuclear waste (well, not > waste, but still radioactive to some degree) which we aren't even apparently > aware of and we don't worry about that, so why do we worry about a mountain > that we DO know about? And all that waste that we already DO have, is sitting in FAR less secure areas now. Everything has it's costs, and it does seem that embedded interests are hyping the dangers of the new stuff so that they won't loose their market. There were at one time laws that required a motor vehicle to be preceeded by a flagman, etc.. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist