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Re: Yucca Mountain : interview with Robert Kennedy Jr.
My guess is that it should be "Butler Buildings," which are lightweight
steel buildings, essentially panels on a light frame. They're weather
proof and can stand up to wind and rain, but not intended to protect from
anything besides reasonable weather.
My guess is that someone looked at a prefab building around a few barrels
and decided that this was a good *sound bite* op.
john rich
Just my opinion.
Jaro
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Please respond to Jaro
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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