Re: Is New Orleans finished ?

Hello Jim,

That's the usual "Let's worry about it some other time" strategy. It's
the same as designing a circuit, leaving two problems on it unsolved
and saying to your boss "Done. Ship it!". It is not proper
engineering.

And an engineer will know there is rarely a PERFECT solution,but will accept the best he can do to achieve the primary goal.He WEIGHS the problems chances.

Not perfect but with a residual risk level that allows one to sleep at night. This certainly is not the case WRT to spent nuclear fuel disposal. I wouldn't want to be asked by a kid some day about how we could allow this to happen.

>>>People have a far greater hazard from radon,fly ash,phosphate mine 
tailings,and other naturally radioactive materials,and all the
hydrocarbon byproducts and mercury spewed into the atmosphere.


I doubt that. For a while, yes, but once stuff starts leaching out
that may no longer be the case. See MTBE in California.

The stuff has to get WET before it can leach out. 

Which it eventually will.

Yucca Mtn is not going to be a "bury it,forget it" site,it's going to be in use as more wastes are stored.It will be monitored.Most importantly,it will be GUARDED,and secure. FAR safer and secure than where they stuff is NOW.

Sure. We'll just saddle umpteen future generations with the tax loads to pay for guarding the waste that we used up. Great.

Nuclear power is much cleaner and safer overall than the fossil fuel
energy producers.

Agree. However, a technology can only be embraced for release when all
aspects have been solved and not merely postponed until maybe some day
we'll figure it out. 


No,that is definitely NOT TRUE. It's unrealistic,and utopian.
If that were the case in REAL LIFE,we'd still be in the Stone Age.

If YOU worked that way,you would be unemployed very quickly.

You probably haven't worked in medical electronics, aeronautics or a field like that.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
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