[ RadSafe ] High Level Waste to WIPP

[Jerry Cohen]

I used to think it was the NIMBY's, anti-nuks, and other assorted crazies who 
have prevented an accepted nukwaste solution. Now I believe it is the 
politicians, bureaucrats, and "researchers" who want to preserve their meal 
ticket by perpetuating the problem.
Actually, HLW mgmt. is a simple problem, if all you were concerned about was the 
potentially harmful health and safrty  effects--- reprocess and extract useful 
fuel, solidify the waste in concrete, and dump it in the ocean---assuming one 
really wants to resolve the problem.
"A voice in the wilderness"



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From: Jeff Terry <terryj at iit.edu>
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List 
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Sent: Mon, May 21, 2012 2:39:28 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] High Level Waste to WIPP

Hi Roy, 

The two counties Eddy and Lea both want the waste. They bought 1000 acres of 
land for repositories, first SALT 2 and now since long term storage has popped 
up, above ground temporary cask storage. 


http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/ElectricPower/6008995

No NIMBY there. 

Jeff


Jeff Terry
Assoc. Professor of Physics
Life Science Bldg Rm 166
Illinois Institute of Technology
3101 S. Dearborn St. 
Chicago IL 60616
630-252-9708
terryj at iit.edu





On May 21, 2012, at 4:28 PM, ROY HERREN wrote:

> Dan, 
> 
>    It pains me to write this, but you wrote "I personally see no reason that 
> WIPP could not manage
> high-level waste".  What is your best Bill Clinton type of a definition of the 

> word "no"?  Did you mean "no" legitimate reason, or perhaps "no" scientific 
> reason?  Certainly you didn't mean to exclude "political - Not In My Backyard 
> (NIMBY) reasons....  It could be argued that the half life of NIMBY, at least 
> in the minds of those who are dead set against anything remotely having to do 
> with Nuclear Power, exceeds the length of the half life for all known 
> radioactive isotopes combined.  ;-)  The NIMBY Luddites are perfectly content 
> with the current status quo that is slowly killing the Nuclear Industry.
>  Roy Herren 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Dan McCarn <hotgreenchile at gmail.com>
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List 
> <radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
> Sent: Wed, May 16, 2012 10:06:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] High Level Waste to WIPP
> 
> Dear Christopher:
> 
> Having been heavily involved over 4 years in the Performance Assessment
> group for the WIPP, I personally see no reason that WIPP could not manage
> high-level waste.  I was involved with the development of the GRASPINV
> inverse groundwater modeling code written to model / calibrate the
> transmissivities with measured heads for the the Culebra Dolomite - the
> pathway to the accessible environment.
> 
> -- 
> Dan ii
> 
> Dan W McCarn, Geologist
> 108 Sherwood Blvd
> Los Alamos, NM 87544-3425
> +1-505-672-2014 (Home – New Mexico)
> +1-505-670-8123 (Mobile - New Mexico)
> HotGreenChile at gmail.com (Private email) HotGreenChile at gmail dot com
> 
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:59 AM, <Cmtimmpe at aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> The article presented in this URL:
>> 
>> _
>> http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/aiken/2012-05-10/srs-nuke-waste-if-not-yu
>> cca-mountain-what-about-new-mexico?v=1336691258_
>> (
>>http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/aiken/2012-05-10/srs-nuke-waste-if-not-yucca-mountain-what-about-new
>>w
>> w
>> -mexico?v=1336691258)
>> is  interesting more because of the comments than the content.  The
>> commenter's  all harp on the fact that putting HLW in WIPP is illegal.
>>  Somehow,
>> they  seem to forget that laws are changed all the time to respond to
>> various
>> changes  in our worlds.  I'd like to see more of the nuclear community
>> respond to  such negativism.
>> 
>> Christopher  M. Timm, PE
>> Vice President/Senior Project Manager
>> PECOS Management  Services, Inc.
>> 505-323-8355 - phone
>> 505-323-2028 - fax
>> 505-238-8174 -  mobile
>> 
>> 
>> 
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