From: S.J. Van Sickle (sjvan@csd.uwm.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 18:50:22 MDT
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Damien Sullivan wrote:
> It would seem that logically an acceptable disposal of nuclear waste would be
> to grind it up fine and spew it in the atmosphere, or dump it where we dump
> coal fly ash. Which the ORNL page says is actually a good source of
> fissionables, and not very guarded...
Ummm...no. The nuclear waste is not considered as "released into the
environment" in the calculations you cite. Nor should it be, since it is
not, unlike the waste products of petroleum burning.
steve
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