Re: leventhal on nuke security and Yucca - CNN

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sorry about the virus -- wrong cohen?  something else?  I just delete attachments if I don't expect them


However:


In a message dated 2/6/02 8:21:54 PM Mountain Standard Time, ncohen12@home.com writes:



> (1) I wasn't being snide. It may have been a poor attempt at humor, but wasn;t snide. I was implying though, 
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> that if I posted "hey guys, the sky is blue", you'd find some fault with that statement. It is a shame that we are unable to have a civil conversation.


Yes it is.  I believe I have done my part to be civil and straighforward.  Maybe if you could refrain from making  comments like "I was implying though, that if I posted "hey guys, the sky is blue", you'd find some fault with that " we could be civil.  Maybe if you are just as straightforward wiith me as I am with you we could be civil.  Civil, not friendly.  I believe that your anti-nuke groups do a great deal of harm.


 (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 
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> seem real. You are OK with transport, saying that everything is safe. I'm not so trusting in DOE experiments and tests.  


I am well aware of NIRS's position, and the distortions that come from groups like that.  Have you read the Yucca Mountain DEIS (www.ymp.gov)?  No one, least of all DOE ever claimed that an accident couldn't happen. To say that they did is a flat untruth.  On the contrary, accidents are analyzed in detail (one of the things I do for a living).  All your anti-nuke groups know this, Resnikoff knows it, the State of Nevada knows it.  By the way, I never did get an answer to my mobile Chernobyl question. 

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."


I suppose this is another attempt at humor.  Is Arlo Guthrie in your science pantheon along with Jane Fonda, Alex Baldwin, and Christie Brinkley?


 And so the idea of getting all the waste to one place is appealing,



Are you aware that in 1982 all the environmental groups, including Sierra Club, SUPPORTED the Nuclear Waste Policy Act?




Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

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