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No Nukes Is Good Nukes | pressconnects.com | Press & Sun-Bulletin

No Nukes Is Good Nukes
PressConnects.com Donald Allen • October 20, 2008 “…………………….nuclear power generation has one very big drawback; nuclear waste. The “used up” fuel from reactors is still very radioactive and will be for about a hundred thousand years. The big problem obviously is what to do with it. In the early days we dumped used fuel from our atomic submarines in the deep part of the ocean. We don’t know exactly how it might have effected the marine environment, but we pretty soon figured out that dumping wasn’t a real good idea. From that day to this, all we have done with most of the used (but still radioactive) fuel it store it “temporarily” some where and moved it around from one temporary storage place to another……………………….The true bottom line is; nowhere is the right place! No one wants it near them because they think something that is radioactive for tens of thousands of years can’t be kept secure and safe virtually forever. It might leak, explode, be shot into the air by earth movement, get stolen or even forgotten until someday it comes back and bites us from behind. Some say the current crop of waste can be further reprocessed into safer forms and less volume of radioactive material. They even claim a use for the reprocessed material may eventually be found. But the recycling of nuclear waste process is expensive and has all of the dangers incumbent with still having some radioactive waste material at the end albeit of a lesser volume. The nuclear powered power plant is not a very attractive option, even if we think things are getting desperate, energywise!…………………….Let’s ask our putative leaders if they are willing to cast off the economic control of corporate contributions from the petrochemical industry, the nuclear industry, the financial industry that manipulates the markets, etc. Let’s ask our leaders to truly represent us and work for our general welfare as the constitution of the U.S. requires. With our support real leaders can not fail. We have the vote, which no amount of private money can buy from us if don’t let it, and that is the real key to power now and for the future.

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October 22, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | wastes