Re: Yucca Mtn. This should raise some hackles

[Rick Tarara <rbtarara@SPRYNET.COM>]

Just a few short comments--see below>


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From: "Bernard Cleyet" <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>


> THE LIST
> Yucky Facts
>
> [Compiled by Teal Krech of the Village Voice]

consider the source

> - Tons of high-level nuclear waste to be shipped to Yucca Mountain, over
>
> either 24 or 38 years: 77,000

All of which, as UNSPENT nuclear fuel , has already been safely shipped to
the power plants.  Also consider the tonnage of nuclear weapons grade
material (and finished bombs & warheads) that has been safely shipped.

> - Number of truckloads of high-level radioactive waste to be shipped
> through the United States if all the waste is moved by truck over 38
> years: 105,685
>
> - Number of railcars of high-level radioactive waste to be shipped
> through the United States if all the waste is moved by rail over 38
> years: 18,243
>
> - Shipments of spent nuclear fuel within the United States over the last
>
> 30 years: 3025
>
> - Number of regulatory incidents involving those American shipments: 47
>
> - Number of accidents: 6
>
> - Number of resulting deaths: 1

 From the accident or radiation leak??

> - Number of truck accidents the Department of Energy predicts will occur
>
> over the 38-year life of the project: 66
>
> - Number of truck accidents other experts estimate will occur over the
> next 40 years: 129
>
> - Minutes it takes unshielded radiation from a fuel rod to kill the
> average person within three feet: 2
>
> - Number of rail accidents the Department of Energy predicts will occur
> over the 38-year life of the project: 10
>
> - Number of rail accidents other experts estimate will occur over the
> next 40 years: 440
>
> - Immediate deaths predicted should a train accident occur involving
> nuclear waste, if that accident is commensurate to last year's Baltimore
>
> tunnel fire, in which a train carrying hazmats derailed, exploded, and
> burned for four days: 250
>
> - Estimated cancer deaths in the 50 years following such an accident:
> 4000 to 28,000

Yes and a meteor may fall on Atlantic City,  NJ tommorrow!

> http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0231/krech.php
>
> bc who thinks keeping it where it is "created"  is a better plan.
> Besides it must for five years (if no Sr. moment).

Leaving it where it is increases Radon exposure with some statistical
probability of increased numbers or Radon induced cancers.

Cheers,

Rick

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