"Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said the leaking material poses no immediate risk to public safety or the environment because it would take a while ? perhaps years ? to reach groundwater."
Phew! So that's all right then ...
Try "Billyuns of years" (see Oklo natural reactor).
All depends on the local geological conditions, dunnit.
You're just trying to spread FUD in a typical greenie f****it way.
Or just tens or less.
Yes, about which neither I, nor you, nor, I very much suspect, the Gov. of Washington, know very much about. That's what makes his/her complacency rather alarming, don't you think?
No, I'm trying to call attention to the very real and serious fact that nuclear waste hanging around indefinitely without adequate proper disposal is a serious accident waiting to happen.
In case you've forgotten, we have quite an amount of it in a similar situation in this country, and have already had similar concerns at the THORPE plant, though thankfully that was at least contained within the site.
You *suspect*, eh? Based on what? You don't actually know. So it's FUD, alright.
You're arguing to a certainty from something you merely "suspect". This is typical of the way you operate.
The point is, they are monitoring local boreholes (and, most probably, public supplies). If there was evidence of a real problem they could build new tanks and empty the old ones. Might not be a bad thing, in fact, as it would focus the mind on long term disposal.
They even seem to have a sensible politician involved:
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said earlier this week that he shares their concerns about the integrity of the tanks but he wants more scientific information to determine it's the correct way to spend scarce money.
Its all part of the communist propaganda methodology, first used by the cold war CND.
Think of the scariest thing. Nuclear radiation, climate change, Dead squirrels, paedophiles raping you 2 year old...whatever.
Work out how anything you can profit on can be loosely associated with the most convenient bogey man.
Get full page coverage in the beeb/Guardian/socialists worker etc etc for a scholarly article that says it COULD happen because the thing that you want to be done, for profit or political leverage isn't being done.
Get a tame commie journalista to ask a politician why, in the light of this possibility something isn't being done *right now*..
bank on the fact that the aforesaid spineless worm will jerk a knee and immediately start a Campaign To Do Something About It. Promise him non exec salary and threaten to reveal his wife took his speeding points..
Get a bill through parliament, and pocket the profits.
Simples.
The big mistake is to believe that any of these dialectical materialists actually believe the guff they spout. It's all done for ego profit or power.
The left has never believed in anything it has said since 1950. It has always been simply a way to get votes and make money.
Any more than Greenpeace believes in saving the planet. These days its a money making for profit organisation, and the java jives are its lower management.
The tanks were built 70 years with a design life of 20 years, so they've done remarkably well.
So if radiation does appear in local boreholes, what will they do about it? Too late by then. Evacuate the area?
Kicking the problem into the long grass.
So why weren't they replaced after 20 years? Kicking the problem into the long grass again.
Lot of people around with their heads up their arses. Ignoring the problem (or in denial it even exists at all.)
If it's no problem/easy to fix, why hasn't it been fixed?
Dear harry. The lead in you car battery is toxic, as is the mercury in your long life bulbs, and will be a threat to humanity for billions of years. Have you organised proper long term storage for it?
There is more radioactivity in your smoke alarm than in a tonne of low level power station waste..
There is more radioactivity in a tonne of coal ash too..
Don't you think these problems should be addressed?
Do what they do now and filter the water. It would be easy to remove the contamination from the water. Even bog standard filters that you buy in asda would remove most of it and a high pressure RO filter would remove it all.
And in the UK you need to inform water company if you install an RO.
Frankly most long lived radioactive compounds are totally innocuous in small quantities: They come into the body and they leave the body.
As does the radioactive air you breathe and the radioactive food you eat.
Remember carbon 14 and radon are both part of the natural environment, and constitute the largest part of any radioactivity you are likely to come into contact with (outside a hospital) along with radioactive potassium 40 in the food you eat.
It will not get through the clay layer ........
and therefore run sideways into the nearby river.
Is that because the low pressure (60psi) ones "waste" 75% of the water?
Aberfan alone killed more children than the nuclear power industry.
Sounds like the justification foir building Thorpe in the first place....
Problem nuclear industry has is it has been caught telling lies so often its hard to know what to believe.
Cheers Adam
I do not know. Happened to be looking at WRAS the other day for something entirely else, and noticed that. Did not look further.
None of that will cut any ice with JJ. He thinks that the environment was completely free of radioactivity until man came along.
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