Re: Yucca Mountain : interview with Robert Kennedy Jr.

[Stewart Farber <farbersa@optonline.net>]

Hi:

It's been said that ignorance is humanity's most hazardous waste. How true  

when you read the snippet enclosed by Yaro about the statements of Robert  

Kennedy, Jr. on a subject about which he apparently knows little.



A "butler" shack probably makes reference to a brand name of metal skinned  

prefab building in the US called a "Butler Building" which comes in  

various modular sizes and can be quickly erected. Depending on how the  

building is finished, it can have a very finished look including insulated  

windows, insulation, architectural lines, and can serve as as finished  

building for many years.  The building itself offers nothing in the way of  

protection for whatever may be housed inside it, but if a simple Butler  

Building were to be erected over certified spent fuel storage casks to  

keep the casks out of the weather, the fuel would have the protection  

offered by the casks themselves.



Stewart Farber

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On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 20:40:42 -0400, Jaro <jaro-10kbq@sympatico.ca> wrote:



> Interesting quote from an interview with Robert Kennedy Jr

>

>  Jaro

> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>

> 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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