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Let Italy deal with its own nuclear waste, says Utah agency
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This helps relieve the burden for the rest of us and allows us to pay teachers more, which sorely needs to be done,
Please people get over your irrational fears, this nuclear waste is not extremely long lived and we have lots of deseret. Lets let some of it do us some good.
It's bad enough the US has to be the policemen of the world . . . now we need to be the garabage dump as well.
After all, it will only be there for a few thousand years.
The agency should instead specify what types and quantities of radioactive wastes are or are not acceptable within its purview. And monitor the work, within its purview, to insure that the process is done right.
Would the newspaper reporter please find out what kind of ending volume or tonnage this potential waste processing would leave us with?
Oh well ... we can't do anything else in this country (drill for oil, build refineries, build nuclear power plants) I guess when we're all living in caves then maybe the Italians can ship us some canned goods to chow down on occasionally
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I remember on one of my earlier post's that someone challenged me with putting forth some evidence that our taking on nuclear waste could result in a catastrophic incident. I responded that no one seemed to be willing to address the geological factor of earthquakes and the fact that the geology of the area in which this waste is supposed to be deposited is not a stable as we've been led to believe.
Now, I'm not opposed to nuclear energy, and strongly feel it should be pursued, but I also feel that if Utah is going to store nuclear waste, let it be the waste it produces from reactors within its own borders, not that of another's State or country's waste. This sort of waste-sharing doesn't work the same way as revenue-sharing, especially since Utah is looking at not only centuries of storage, but having to repackage the waste when the containers give out (which they will), and the potential as yet undetermined problems that may yet beset us.
Let other States and countries keep the waste they created and find their own ways of dealing with it.