[ RadSafe ] High Level Waste to WIPP

[Dan McCarn]

Dear Roy:

As a former member of the Performance Assessment team for WIPP, I see no
TECHNICAL reason that high-level waste cannot be stored at the WIPP. As in
Yucca Mountain, there would be significantly more heat dissipated, but I
believe that the essential performance would be excellent and relatively
easy to model.

Dan ii

Dan W McCarn, Geologist
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On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:28 PM, ROY HERREN <royherren2005 at yahoo.com> 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>
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> 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
> > -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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