"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
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In article ,
"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:


Ya know, sometimes the antinukers have a point that they don't mention
explicitly because they shouldn't have to if the audience is intelligent
enough. This is the point: Politicians will approve just about ANYTHING
if
someone lines their pockets sufficiently. For all we know, Yucca Mountain
could be sitting on top of an enormous aquifer that nobody's tapped yet.
We'd never know it until Western states decided to tap into it and found
it
was contaminated.

I went to Google just to be a smart ass and say they don't know.
Turns out they do know.
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/yucca/about.html
Highlights, the radiation storage is better than 1000 feet above the
aquifer. Googling "Yucca Mountain" and aquifer yields all sorts of neat
stuff.


Like I said....enough money.....


Local town & city councils are the training grounds for bribery. This is
where they learn to approve little things like shopping plazas that nobody
wants or needs, or more famous disasters like Rochester's fast ferry
debacle, which was to transport "all those tourists" back & forth to
Toronto. Problem: No business plan, no surveys to find out if there were
customers who'd use the service. Result: Went belly up in less than two
years. Both customers rode the ferry a few times, and the thrill was gone.
But, it was approved because politicians were paid to approve it. No venture
capitalist would work this way, but they're smarter, and their own money is
involved.

If you think the same types of politicians don't get involved with projects
that could kill people, you are high.