"Sunworshipper" wrote in message
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I don't believe the rosy numbers for nuke power. There is a story
about Rocky Flats in the paper today , granted it was a weapons plant
, but some of the cost should be added in.

Like winning the cold war?



The DEO estimated the clean
up would take 60 yrs. and cost $36 billion. Now they are saying only
$7 billion , sounds fishy to me. And they are going to move it to
where? How much is it going to cost to move (clean up) 3 mile island
and all the other decommissioned plants? How much does and did it cost
to write up probably billions of pages of "law" about nukes? How much
for all the technology , partly for energy generation? How much to
build Yucca Mt. and test all the other sites? How much more to build a
nuke plant vs. coal and all the mining and refining put together. How
much for the transportation technology? Plus, 10,000 yrs.+ of
watching it?

I know I've asked this before , but it just doesn't sound right. I bet
if you compared solar/wind/geo/hydro vs. coal vs. nuke with real
honest numbers the numbers would be the inverse.

Hydro is good, but you are limited to the number of places where you can
build the dams.

Wind shows some promise, but only produces when the wind blows.

Solar is no where near cost effictive, see:
http://www.energyadvocate.com/fw61.htm




IIRC they just made public the Yucca Mt. thing , its only around a
million pages long. Should be no problem to come to a consciences if
it's a good idea to put it all in one hole in what a couple of life
times of reading. Sure we need the power, but hiding the numbers in
billions of pages isn't comforting. What about the trees and all the
other storage mediums of the information? )

I am not sure of what you are referring to when you write "the Yucca Mt.
thing". Yucca Mountain is the site designated as the final repository for
the US nuclear power waste. Political squabbling has delayed the opening
of the facility, but I suspect that sooner or later the place will open and
do what it was designed to do.

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Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.