[ RadSafe ] Is there gonna be EPA in YEAR 12005 AC

[Bernard Cohen]

    ---The fatalities projected are from cancer, assuming present cure 
rates. Will these cure rates not improve over the next 10,000 years? 
They currently improve by about 1% per year.

Emil wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I am just wondering how many folks, seriously, believe that there
>gonna be EPA or NRC or DOE or even State of Nevada...... in year
>12005.
>Look back in the history and you will see the future.. No one State
>or Country was able to exist longer then...what couple or three
>thousands of years.
>China comes to mind, first.
>As matter of gambling, since Yacca Mountain is near Las Vegas, what
>odds of that? ZERO
>I would NOT bet on that!
>
>I know, I may be missing the point but, hey, in year 12005, there
>wont be Califonia and Pacific Beach will be somewhere close the Vegas
>anyway. I would put my bet on that.
>
>
>Happy weekend every one:-)
>
>Emil.
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>>-- Loux said the EPA defended a separate groundwater radiation 
>>standard for the Yucca Mountain Project in court last year when
>>sued 
>>by the nuclear industry. However, he said the EPA abandoned any 
>>groundwater protection standard for Yucca after 10,000 years, the 
>>very time when the repository is expected to leak. It did this,
>>Loux 
>>added, even though a court ruled last summer that cutting standards
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>>off at 10,000 years was arbitrary and impermissible.
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