(2) As far as Yucca, you can go to www.nirs.org for most of the major
concerns about Yucca and about the traansport off waste there. As I have
stated before, I am of a divided mind on this issue. There clearly (to
me at least) are transport risks, as enumerated by Leventhal. With around
50,000 shipments, the odds of an accident
seem real. You are OK with transport, saying that everything is safe.
I'm not so trusting in DOE experiments and tests. As far as the site
itself, while it looks to me that in the short term the storage of waste
there should be OK, I am not satified with the site for long term storage
- volcanos, earthquakes, water flow, etc.
However, the great scientist Arlo Guthrie once said in
Alice's Restuarant, that "rather than have two piles of garbage, we threw
our on the other pile." And so the idea of getting all the waste to one
place is appealing, but not if the waste generators, the nukes, are allowed
to continue to generate waste. Thats why I took a position opposed by many
of my "anti" friends, that I'd support shipping waste to Yucca if (1) no
more nukes were to be built, and (2) that as we phase out nukes, the waste
from the closed nuke could be sent to Yucca.
Finally Ruth, I might never send you flowers, but I would never send you a computer virus either. I got more class than that. Sandy Perle is correct, you owe me an apology.
Peace
Norm
RuthWeiner@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 2/6/02 10:05:09 AM Mountain Standard Time, ncohen12@home.com writes:
Of course you wouldn't. ;-) But NCI, thru Leventhal, is trying to walk down a middle path. After all, he does support Yucca with some reservations, and thats way more to 'your side' than most of us 'anti's.I shouldn't even respond, but don't "you antis" have actual reasons for what you support and don't support? What, for example, are the (enumerated) reasons that you (or your group) and Leventhal differ on Yucca Mountain? (By the way, this is a real question, for which I would like a straightforward answer. Please control your desire to be snide, as in the first few words of the quote above.)
The nuclear community, for a variety of completely rational and understandable reasons, is not entirely of one mind regarding Yucca Mountain.
Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
ruthweiner@aol.com
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