Goodbye 100w, 75w Incandescent Lamps

Don't be surprised to see a mandated "deposit" on CFLs.

I wonder if there was anything preventing abortions from being accurately reported and counted when it was illegal? LOL!

Take it easy on the idiot. You might cause him to have a seizure.

Of course then everyone would be all pissed about using tax funds for the rich golfers. Generally politicians can't win (g).

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You _DO_ know that Yucca Mountain is a "monitored, retrievable storage facility" don't you? The spent fuel will be incased and in the storage tunnels in such a fashion it can be continually observed and even retrieved for recycling.

Which, of course, if it weren't for the extremist greens, is what would have been done for the last 40 years and the whole exercise would have been avoided as well as the reduction in C emissions by the replacement of most of the older, less-efficient coal-fired units having been retired in favor of nuclear and the massive buildup of natural gas-fired generation facilities would not have happened or at least been constrained to required rapid-response peak generation cycling units rather than baseload generation capacity.

All in all, a _very_ expensive and ill-considered result for environmental advancement.

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Local politicians don't have approval for NRC requirements first of all.

Second, see previous response to this nonsense.

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Deposits worked reasonably well on soda cans where they were implemented.

Can't happen, therefore not a concern.

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True, but HeyBub has been told to see that as an example of guvmint control.

Where did you live during the time Shoreham was being proposed and then built?

A spent fuel pool is for "exposed" fuel--that's what "spent" means by definition.

The pools are "pools" because they're full of water for cooling which also supplies some shielding. The assemblies are not handled manually but by remote handling equipment through fuel transfer canals which are also called "canals" because they're full of water for shielding as well. When leaving the spent fuel storage, they go into large, shielded, spent-fuel shipping casks which are designed to withstand any conceivable accident including fire and direct impact at a hypothetical railroad grade crossing. They've even done qualification tests on these casks which include both of the above scenarios before they get NRC licenses to be deployed.

The reason to get Yucca Mountain operational is that the spent fuel pools at the reactor sites are getting full-up. In reality, what we should have been doing since the 70s is recycling the spent fuel and reducing the actual waste into much smaller volumes and disposing of it as well as using much of it as subsidiary radiation sources for all kinds of uses from medical to heat generation.

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Not with respect to nuclear facility safety, no.

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Why not?

Directional drilling technology is where it is now because it meets the current need. Do you honestly think that the necessary upgrades to the technology would not be made in short order if clearance to drill from selected sites around ANWR were given? Lots of things weren't possible until there was motivation and funding to actually get them done.

No, it doesn't answer the question (although it wasn't a question).

They (PSA's) change regularly here and there's still the pro bono contribution they receive for airing and producing them that is significant in the evaluation of their license reapplication process.

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In other words, my knowledge is not likely to change physical occurrences elsewhere. I deal in absolutes. If I can't see and touch something, I don't trust it. You can talk all day long about nuke plant security, but as long as there are human beings involved, I will always have doubts.

Here's a lesser example of something that was supposed to be trusted - a zoo cage. Tiger kills one, injures two:

"The zoo's director of animal care and conservation, Robert Jenkins, could not explain how Tatiana escaped. The tiger's enclosure is surrounded by a

OK. You're right. I guess we should never use such commercials because the people creating them didn't work for free.

Sheesh....

Lynchburg, VA. Working NE at NPGD, B&W.

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Propose a _reasonable_ scenario by which it could.

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