Re: YUCCA MOUNTAIN in What's New for Jul 12, 2002

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

on 7/12/02 5:55 PM, Susan L Gawarecki at loc@icx.net wrote:



> YUCCA MOUNTAIN: THE DEBATE FINALLY WENT CRITICAL.  By a vote

> of 60 to 39, the Senate overrode Nevada's veto of a plan to

> consolidate nuclear waste.  There will be court challenges. The

> most irresponsible attempt to block the repository came from

> physicists.  In 1995 two Los Alamos physicists, who just happened

> to favor a plan to transmute fissile waste in an accelerator,

> claimed there was a danger that the mountain could go critical.

> The only support for their claim came from physicists at Savannah

> River, who just happened to favor vitrification of stored waste.



More "hack science" from US gov't-funded "scientists"?  "Right answers"

define "good science" :-)



Regards, Jim



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