[Rockhounds] Gemfield Mine, NV

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Sid,

Even in you reprocess spent radioactives using new technology that
'prevents' making bombs (see Scientific American a few months ago) there
is still some 'hot' waste that needs to go into storage (long term for
people, short term geologically); Yucca, or equivalent, will be with us
for a long time unless there is a breakthru in understanding nuclear
technology and physics.

Kreigh


RskRock2000 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> I agree with Nate, nice to have some clarification from people who have
> first hand knowledge.
> 
> I am not very knowledgeable in that area so I ask you for your  thoughts on
> the following:
> 
> There was a recent TV program on France's nuclear energy  industry. Nuclear
> energy not only provides for most of their domestic  electricity usage, but
> they also sell electricity to several other European  countries.  Why not follow
> France's example  of reprocessing the spent fuel and storage of the greatly
> reduced  volume on site in their one reprocessing plant.
> 
> Recognizing the security risk of weapons grade material stored, to date the
> French appear to have that sufficiently controlled in the design and
> protections of their plant.
> 
> So finally my question is why do we need to store at Yucca at all?
> 
> Sid Pomper  Boston, Ma.
> 
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