RE: what about this Norm?

["Michael Stabin" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu>]

Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:49:50 -0800

From: "Mercado, Don" <don.mercado@LMCO.COM>

Subject: RE: what about this Norm?



Okay Norm. Since you seem to be able to get DL of UCS to talk to you, why

don't you pose the excellent questions below to him and get back to us with

his answers?



> -----Original Message-----

> From: Thomas J Savin [SMTP:tjsav@LYCOS.COM]

> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 6:07 AM

> To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject: what about this Norm?

> 

> Steve has an excellent group of points (see below). What is your opinion

> on Yucca MT?  Just think of all the spent nuclear fuel that would be

> removed from nuclear power plants.  Do you think that a 747 would explode

> the  mountain, or maybe cause volcanic activity there? lets take care of

> two things at once.  Remove spent fuel from the plants and get rid of one

> of the terrorist options.

> ---

> Tom Savin

> 

On 5 Nov 2001, 4:21 PM Norm Cohen wrote:



>>Of course I ran this by Dave Lochbaum and here's what he said:



>>"UCS is neither pro-nuke nor anti-nuke.



> On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:45:13   

>  Steve Frantz wrote:

> >The UCS and other groups say that they are not anti-nuclear,

> >they are pro-nuclear safety.

> >

> >OK, then let them define their safety goal in measurable means.

> >

> >How thick of a containment is safe? How many hours of training

> >per year for the licensed operators? How many backup deisel

> >generators? What level of releases above background? How many

> >hours of NRC inspection per year? How many radiation induced

> >cancers in the neighboring population? Anything at all

> >quantifiable?

> >

[Mercado, Don]  <snip> 

> >Can the plants be made safe through modification? 

> >

[Mercado, Don]  <snip>

> >Will the plants be safe if they are shut down? 

> >

> >Should the spent nuclear fuel be moved to Nevada or some other

> >storage facility? 

[Mercado, Don]  <snip> 

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