FW: Yucca Mountain : interview with Robert Kennedy Jr.

["Burkett, David Wayne" <david.w.burkett@Vanderbilt.Edu>]

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Subject: 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



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Interesting quote from an interview with Robert Kennedy Jr



 Jaro

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

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 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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