Re: Nuclear Waste, Science, & Politics

["Fritz A. Seiler" <faseiler@NMIA.COM>]

Hi Jerry,



Your argument sounds exactly like Dixy Lee Ray's when I told her I had

accepted a job as risk assessor with IT Corporation!  And that in front

of my wife Mary, who worked with Dixy at the Institute for Regulatory

Science, and one of my proteges at IT. She really tore quite a strip off

me in her time-honored manner (no dogs!).  So you see, don't be sorry,

you are in very good company!



Have a good evening,



Fritz



Jerry Cohen wrote:



> ... contractors working on nuclear waste have shamelessly exploited

> this ignorance to advance their own self interests. As I previously

> suggested, if organizations such as Greenpeace, and Friends or the

> Earth did not exist, the DoE and EPA would have had to invent

> them.With the exception of transmutation and space disposal, any of

> the multitude of waste management schemes that have been proposed

> should  have been acceptable from a public health standpoint. Even the

> ridiculously expensive Yucca Mtn. Project would be OK. However, the

> billions of dollars made available for studying the problem provide a

> strong disincentive for reaching a solution. Nobody wants to kill the

> goose that lays the golden eggs.I am sorry if these views seem

> skeptical, but I really believe they accurately characterize the

> current situation. For whatever it's worth, if health, safety, and

> economics were the primary concerns, ocean disposal is still the best

> solution ( see Bernie Cohen's paper in Nuclear Technology 17:163-172).

> On the other hand, if we need a solution that is absolutely perfect in

> every way, I guess we will just have to keep on looking. At least, as

> long as the money continues to roll in.



--



 " The American Republic will endure until the day Congress

 discovers that it can bribe the Public with the Public's money."

                                       Alexis de Tocqueville

                                       Democracy in America



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