Re: Is New Orleans finished ?

Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:aFqSe.681$ua1.473@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> 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.

You must NEVER get any sleep,then.

> This certainly is not the case WRT to spent nuclear fuel
> disposal.

Only in the anti-nuke crowd's opinion.


> 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.

You seem very certain of this.

>
>> 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.

Better than the tax loads from having it spread out all over the US,with
much less security,or the tax loads from evacuating areas where terrorists
spread hot nuclear wastes.
And -you- talk about risk levels....you have NO clue.
>
>>>>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.

Oh,one has to work in certain fields to express opinions or know about
things? Are you saying that if one has not worked in certain fields,that
one has no vote in any matter? That one has to have experience in whatever
topic they are discussing,otherwise they should just shut up?


I note that there's a recall right now for some medical electronic
device,there are ads about it on TV. Are you saying that there are never
any recalls and all medical devices have been engineered after looking at
"all aspects"???

>
> Regards, Joerg
>
> http://www.analogconsultants.com
>

Face it,you are just trying futilely to make any excuse to not have nuclear
power.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net
.

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