-=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Wayne Chirnside <=-

 WC> A search on "nuclear accidents" is anything but comforting.

 RJT> Yeah,  no doubt.  And as I type this there's a thing on the TV about
 RJT> Indian Point (NY),  and how it's a terrorist target... 
 RJT> Did I ever mention that I _see_ Three Mile Island on my way to work? 
 RJT> The whole nuke thing bothers me because they *still* haven't got a
 RJT> good answer for waste disposal. 

Actually, they've got several. As with just about everything "nuclear"
the problems are *vastly* exaggereated.

The waste from the reactors won't be any more radioactive than the
original uranium ore after a measly 300 years. that's a long time, but
it's nowhere *near* the *thousands* of years that people insist storage
facilities be designed for. 

I could go on about other things, such as Three Mile Island being proof
of how *well* designed US reactors are. They had far more things go
wrong, most due to human error, than any "worst case" put forth by the
anti-nuke camp and yet all that happened that "shouldn't" have was the
release of an amount of radioactive material that's dwarfed by both
natural radiation and by the radioactives released *hourly* by
coal-fired power plants (which produce far more waste than nukes do and
it is toxic *forever*)

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