nuclear-news

Here at home in Canada and in the United States, we should be much more concerned about the nuclear waste storage at Hanford, Wash., nuclear waste disposal site.

There they have nuclear waste in old steel containers — huge containers — and the tanks are rusting away. What type of nuclear waste? Apparently it is a mixture of everything you can imagine, much of it waste that came from making nuclear bombs for the Cold War.

Now, we have hot stuff in our very own backyard. Concerned scientists are worried about the buildup of nuclear-waste hydrogen that could result in an explosion so large that we will have this mess drift up into our Canadian atmosphere, much the same way Mount St. Helen’s ash did when that exploded.

Scientists do not know how to get rid of this stuff or how to process it into distinct components and then deal with each of them. The U.S. is more concerned about waging war around the world to convert the Muslim heathens into good little Christians. Should the U.S. not clean up at home before they venture abroad? It could be that the waging of wars has left the U.S. so broke that it has no money left for clean up.

In the meantime, the news is all about Iran and its nuclear program. No one mentions the Israel’s nuclear program and where its waste goes. It is time to clean up at home before we concentrate on the nuclear problems of our neighbours.

Nuclear waste lasts for millions of years; at this rate, humans won’t.

Jorgen Hansen, Kelowna