[LMB] [OT:] May I do this?

[Scott Raun]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:02:27AM -0700, WILLIAM A WENRICH wrote:
> Nuclear waste is not nearly the problem it's made out to be. The
> volume/tonnage is not that great, so there is ample room. The
> biggest problem is that people are assuming that civilization will
> fall and people 10k years from now will be too dumb to realize that
> this stuff they're digging up is poison. IMNSHO people will be
> mining our nuclear waste dumps as power sources.

And they're assuming all radiation is BAD, and that nuclear waste will
continue to give off radiation at its current rate for the full 10k
(or more) years.

I got a Sierra Club person to go away once using that - he was going
door-to-door asking for contributions, I told him no.  He asked why -
I told him, 'because you don't believe in nuclear energy, and I do.'

-- 
Scott Raun
sraun at fireopal.org