[103990] in Cypherpunks
Re: I thought of an initialy regulated industry!... (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Anderson)
Wed Oct 7 22:31:32 1998
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 22:08:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
cc: Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer <cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810021246.HAA24653@einstein.ssz.com>
Reply-To: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
> The issue with storage is that it occurs on a time line that is best
> described as near-geologic. Periods of time that are orders of magnitude
> longer than human civilizations survive.
>
> > coal plant are not only more voluminous (though less dense) than the coal
> > that goes in but also contain a substance that is more poisonous than
> > plutonium (arsenic trioxide).
>
> Consider the difference in volume of these two waste products...
Really? The amount of fuel that goes into a nuclear plant is farirly low,
compared to the amount shoved into a coal plant. When they shut down the
nuclear plants to change the fuel, the fuel that dcomes out is 95% (or
maybe 99%, I forget the figures I heard at Fermi II in Michigan) usable.
The problem is that the governemtn refuses to let anyone process the fuel
to eliminiate the waste and reuse the fuel. The 1-5% waste slows the
reaction down enough that the fuel is not nearly usable.
Considering pure volume: Coal exhaust is continuos and significant.
Nuclear waste is a burst every 18 mohts, equal to a barrel or two, worst
case.
(to the best of my knowledge.)(
Ryan Anderson
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