[ RadSafe ] High Level Waste to WIPP

Tue May 22 07:05:19 CDT 2012

Jerry

Isn't the argument against this  "dump it in the ocean---"  is that we may
need it as fuel in the future?

John

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Jerry Cohen <jjc105 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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"
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jeff Terry <terryj at iit.edu>
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
> <radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
> 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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