Reply #5: First of all, your number is wrong; even if it were accurate it'd be... [View All]

[NNadir]

silly.

There will be, in a few years, about 75,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel, 95% of which will be unchanged uranium that can be recycled. This will be the total amount of fuel accumulated for 60 years of all of the commercial nuclear power ever produced in the United States.

http://energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=235059&Month=8&Year=2006

There are 300 million people in the United States. Thus, by simple division, the quantity of waste produced is about 250 grams per person, accumulated over 60 years.

If you don't know what you're talking about, make stuff up.

If we note that 95% of the material is recoverable - and should be recovered for reuse - the amount of material left over will be about 12 grams.

Like most people who raise this non-issue of so called nuclear waste, you are unable to produce a single case of a person who has been injured by so called "nuclear waste." Nor do you note what the per capita output of the most dangerous waste known - that would be carbon dioxide - is per year.

The figure for per capita carbon dioxide emissions is 16 tons per person per year. http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/tableh1cco2.xls

Because you're indifferent to this waste, carbon dioxide, only one of the myriad wastes produced by fossil fuels - and only one of which is dumped into the air and water - doesn't mean it is harmless or that I buy into the validity of your highly selective attention. I don't. Ignorance - especially deliberate ignorance about the fact that all forms of energy produce waste - kills. That's the point.

It is obviously much easier to contain 0.012 grams of solid material accumulated every 60 years than it is to contain 16 metric tons of a gas produced in 1/60 th the time.