tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10092066.post5833052583261328803..comments2024-01-08T00:40:50.918-08:00Comments on The Dragon's Tales: Yucca Mountain Project to be Shuttered?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10092066.post-70675066855408619402009-03-07T12:44:00.000-08:002009-03-07T12:44:00.000-08:00Why bury the waste?Build a 1 KM square 10 meter wa...Why bury the waste?<BR/>Build a 1 KM square 10 meter wall and concrete floor in modular fashion. Have robotic vehicles stack the drums or whatever containers in modules with pathways between. Use robotic patrols and a few Border Patrol govt employees to guard the site inside a 1.1 Km square chain link fence.<BR/>Once reporcessing of waste is politically and economically viable, go get what's needed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10092066.post-13693835919789997282009-03-06T19:22:00.000-08:002009-03-06T19:22:00.000-08:00As a former NMican who was (and still is) pro WIPP...As a former NMican who was (and still is) pro WIPP and is now living in the Vegas area, I'd like to jump in here and say that Yucca Mountain being shuttered is likely a good thing based on what I've read in the local media. <BR/><BR/>Granted, most of the time it's been difficult to get through the articles due to my bullsh*t meter being pegged, but there's been a lot of really effed up "science" going on. Where "science" involves doing what ever it takes to "make the site work" and it taking five years to discover/determine that the <A HREF="http://www.lvrj.com/news/9954856.html" REL="nofollow"> fault line was not where they originally thought it to be.</A> Along with the <A HREF="http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/technologyandresearch/a/yuccalies.htm" REL="nofollow"> investigation into USGS data falsification. </A> Plus a few other lovely things like the government's blatant disregard of cease and desist orders by courts of law.<BR/><BR/>As a scientist, I don't feel that there's anything that the government can do or say at this point that will result in believable (i.e. non tainted) data, and that continuing with the Yucca Mountain project would result in a nuclear waste version of <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal" REL="nofollow">Love Canal</A>. (Having researched Love Canal before, I know that's a mostly accurate Wiki. My biggest gripe is that not enough emphasis is placed on the whole fiasco being the fault of the City of Niagra Falls, not Hooker Chemical Company, but that's a different rant) What makes this even worse is that I *KNOW* that the proposed solution of keeping the waste where it's at is NEITHER a good NOR viable solution. <A HREF="http://www.hanford.gov/" REL="nofollow">Hanford Site</A> anyone?<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, I don't have any suggestions for a good location. My understanding is that Yucca Mountain wasn't the only location on that list in 2002. Re-examination of that list might be a good place to start. I'd suggest that a more better place be found in Nevada, but with the stellar job the government has done with Yucca, I don't think that's ever going to be viable (at least not in our lifetimes).Suzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03727067047926798625noreply@blogger.com