Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: Fw: [powderworks] NMOC: Yucca Mountain Waste Dump-Looking Dead!
From: Kate Adams
Date: 6/03/2010, 2:50 am
To: Powderworks

I got me one of them there Materials Science and Engineering degrees, too.�From MIT (IIIa, 1989) as a matter of fact.� I'm not buying the "technological solution of the month" here.
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I also keenly remember being held after school until 6:30 pm with no warning, bored and hungry, because they were moving shit out of Hanford around.� Blank days on the lunch calendar� meant no school and stay inside - heaven help you if you needed to get to hospital on the other side of town.�
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A few years ago, I personally delivered a copy of a report comissioned by multiple organizations to my US Rep (Markey) at his local office which indicated that the safest answer for the waste - from a stability and national homeland security standpoint -�was to build hardened on-site storage that required no transportation and accounted for the heat with passive cooling and provided for on-site security while better options were pursued.� Of course this scheme, though economical compared to Yucca overall, still holds those who generated it accountable for their mess and makes them pay for it.
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Consider as well that goods movement issues include all transport in the life cycle. The mobile source pollution that any shipment scheme entails is now a high EPA environmental justice priority.�
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Chu is a competent scientist, not an industry hack.� He can tell pollyanna� "reclassify the criteria and the problem goes away" nonsense from the reality of a poor selection of an seizmically and hydrologically unstable site.�

kPa

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Kate Adams <kate@dnki.net> wrote:


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From: Jacques Cuneo <jacquescuneo@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:43 AM
Subject: Fw: [powderworks] NMOC: Yucca Mountain Waste Dump-Looking Dead!
To: canadavros@yahoo.com.au, kate@dnki.net, daniels1975@gmail.com, glitchbaby1976@yahoo.com


Due to the vagaries of accessing email at work I am unable to get this through to the list.� I did want to supply a reply to my previous comments.� If someone happens to have the time to forward this to the list I'd appreciate it.

Take care.

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From: Jacques Cuneo <jacquescuneo@yahoo.com>
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
Sent: Fri, March 5, 2010 9:18:45 AM
Subject: Re: [powderworks] NMOC: Yucca Mountain Waste Dump-Looking Dead!


No need to start an argument - I should have kept my mouth shut.� The whole left-of-Marx thing was a bit of hyperbole.� He is way, way left, but obviously (and I thought it was obvious - I should know better in this format) not actually left of Marx.

As far as the Oils' point of view I agree with a large number of ideas they sung about.� Nuclear energy (not talking weapons), though, they are dead wrong.� Just my opinion.�

As a materials engineer I am intimately familiar with the technologies that were to be used to encapsulate and store the nuclear waste.�� I have worked with the materials for other purposes (I'm not in the nuclear field at all, so my job isn't at stake or anything).� It would have worked.� The site was a good choice.� We spent massive amounts of money to put things in place.� It is a shame (IMO) that NIMBY killed it.�

BTW, I have a number of opinions that are contradictory with every "normal" political line of thought.� But I am still a huge Oils fan.� In fact, last weekend I ran my first half-marathon.� My song list for the last (many) miles included a bunch of Scream in Blue and the good stuff from Diesel (Bullroarer, Sell Your Soul - the pumping stuff).� My 1:41 finish on a hilly course made for a great day - and the Oils dragged me to the finish line in style. ;-)

Take care.


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