Yucca Mountain : interview with Robert Kennedy Jr.

["Jaro" <jaro-10kbq@sympatico.ca>]

Interesting quote from an interview with Robert Kennedy Jr



 Jaro

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http://www.ph-fare.com/press/kennedyinterview.htm

<snip>

 In the United States, we're still figuring out how to store the waste

products of nuclear energy for a period of 30,000 years - five times the

length of recorded human history - and it's taken us ... 40 years to get to

the point where we now have a depository, which is Yucca Mountain, which has

very serious problems, which first of all, will only store half the waste

that already exists in the United States.

There's no plan for what to do with the rest of it. It's now temporarily

stored at the nuclear power plants that produce it.

Its spent fuel poses an enormous danger to the public, especially in light

of the terrorist threat.



Most of this is stored in unprotected what they call Butler shacks that have

the structural integrity of a K-Mart. So we don't know what to do with it.

<end quote>



I have never heard of "Butler shacks" -- has anyone else ?

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