"I find the extension of the time frame for the Yucca Mountain rules to 1 million years to be absolutely preposterous," wrote Frank A. Albini, a retired research professor of mechanical engineering at Montana State University, Bozeman."The rules should apply no longer than the current life of the nation, about 200 years. By then, the people of the U.S., if such still exists, will probably not even be able to read, much less interpret, the rules. This is silliness in the extreme."
Public comments on the Yucca Mountain standards, from the Las Vegas Sun (via Greenwire).
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He's right. The hazard of spent nuclear fuel is analogous to that of carbon monoxide, which is of course carbon fuel in partly spent form. Several people have recently been killed by it.
If thousands of nuclear reactors are built and operated for many decades, a similar nuclear death toll may accumulate, but as of yet, during the time in which nuclear energy has been taking market share away from oil and gas, the score is carbon monoxide several tens of thousands, nuclear waste zero.
But oil and gas cost 100 times as much per unit of heat as uranium, and are highly taxed. So those carbon monoxide fatalities are, to the publically funded, very lucrative. That's what all of this is all about. If no-one were willing to lie for public petrodollars, nuclear waste would have been buried long ago.
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