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The Big Stink In Utah, Is It Laughable ?
Jun 13, 2008 | 7:59 PM
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The  big stink in Utah, is it laughable ? Last week the Orlando Sentinel ran a brief article about Utah residents protesting the plains of a private company that handles and stores low-level radioactive waste at it's storage facility. There are plans to store 20,000 lbs. of  Italian low-level radioactive waste at this site.

What about radioactive waste generated in the good old US of A ?  This country can't build a new nuclear reactor because of conscerns about  handing, using, and storing radioactive fuel. Yet a bussiness can be licensed by the goverment, and handle the  low-level radioactive waste of others ? The goverment manages a large storage facility  for the hotter spent fuel as well. Will this end up being used to store waste of others , because the goverment will not license the construction of new American reactors?

What a fricking joke !  I don't believe atomic energy to be an ultimate answer for energy independence. I do believe it to be an temporary alternate though.


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AC_Cages read my blog view my photos
Jun 13, 2008 | 8:10 PM

How about bringing our boys back from the sandpiles over there and dumping all that radioactive waste over there?
Meb452m read my blog
Jun 13, 2008 | 8:33 PM

AC, that's probably not practicle, but a pleasureable thought nun the less !
TavaresJim read my blog view my photos
Jun 14, 2008 | 9:36 AM

AC,
Lets take all the Iraqi oil first then fill the empty holes in with nuclear waste. Then the towel heads can fight over whats left and no one will care.
DeborahLakeHelen read my blog view my photos
Jun 14, 2008 | 4:14 PM

Meb, why don't they dump their waste on their
own land? After all, Italy is shaped like a big boot, there should be plenty of room to stuff all that $h!t into it, instead of Utah's shoebox! What have they done for us lately, that they deserve a favor that big?
Meb452m read my blog
Jun 14, 2008 | 6:51 PM

Not so much a favor to Italy, it's just " BIG $$$$ " bussiness. But when American can't build reactors, the logic would seem a bit suspect in my book Deborah.
sipedo read my blog view my photos
Jun 15, 2008 | 7:20 PM

Underneath Detroit used to be some of the largest salt deposits in the world. Guess what they are used for now? Hazardous Waste. They keep them in 55 gallon barrels mostly, and the pile gets bigger and bigger. The largest depositor of such waste outside the US? Canada.
Heidi_Hatch read my blog view my photos
Jun 17, 2008 | 12:58 AM

I've lived most of my life in Utah and I can tell you this is an ongoing problem. There is already a ton of nuclear waste there. It was a concern to me when I lived there and a concern to me now. The native American's sold the rights to some of their land on the reservations to store the waste. They thought it was a great way to make money.
In Utah the government also wanted to test a new massive bomb for the military underground and they dispose of all old military munitions at a site in Utah's West Desert. I have to think the health implications for the people of Utah are not good! Give the waste back to the people who made it.
Meb452m read my blog
Jun 18, 2008 | 5:01 PM

Thanks for your comments Heidi. I'm well aware of potential issues, and I don't make light of those. The location was chosen for a number of reasons, the four top are: a geographically stable area - no earthquakes, deep storage underground in abandoned salt mines - shielding the people and enviroment from radiation, and an area that doesn't have humidity that would cause the deterioration of storage containers, and last no close ground water source to contaminate. Those conditions are hard to find all together in any given spot nationwide. If the scientist's plans for a earth to space tether launch platform, there will never be a need to store spend radioactive fuel for great lenghts of time. Feasibly in the future it could be carried by the tether platform into space and then launched on a tragectory that would allow it to burn up between Mercury and the Sun. Heidi, what are your thoughts on nuclear reactors themselves ? Do you see them as an alternate form of electric power until technology provides a better solution ? Energy independence has to be achieved, or the American people and our economy will suffer for generations to come.
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