Re: Can hydrogen deliver?

From: Tim O'Flaherty (pinwheels_Fudge__at_gwi.net)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:51:40 -0400

"Dan Bloomquist" <EXTRApublic21@lakeweb.com> wrote in message
news:41740DBA.6090201@lakeweb.com...
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> Tim O'Flaherty wrote:
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> Why are you still doing this?

Why haven't you been able to answer my query, posed here for the third time:

Name one country that has put spent fuel waste in a final
repository.

>Nuclear weapons can be built by anybody
> with money and political insulation.

They can be built easier and faster if you already have a source of
separated Pu.

> Restricting the growth of nuclear
> power is not a deterrent.

Restricting reprocessing of spent fuel and separation of Pu is a deterrent.

> If anything, it makes yellow cake cheaper for
> someone that wants to build a weapon.
>
> Please stop putting nuclear power in the same bag as
 weapons.

Please stop dodging the real issue,dealing with high level waste.
Reprocessing is expensive, dirty and increases proliferation risks.

 The atom
> is out of the bag. To argue against nuclear power on the premise that it
> promotes nuclear weapons proliferation is ludicrous.

To promote nuclear power without considering the deferred costs, to continue
to claim the waste issue is *only* political, is willful ignorance.

Regards,
Tim O

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