Norminn wrote:
dpb wrote:

Oren wrote:
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Just a layman here, BUT there are a lot of transport problems to be
faced in our future. Particularly trucking and train safety.


No. Spent fuel transport casks have been demonstrated experimentally
to take direct hit from 70-mph railroad locomotive followed by fire
and not leak contamination. There's no significant radioactive risk.

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What about earthquakes at Yucca Mt.?

Just yesterday Vegas had a small quake.

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What about them? If worst were to come to worst, it will simply bury
the waste underground. Meanwhile, the facility is designed to
accommodate seismic activity. There are far more real dangers and
boogey men to worry over in this world.

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Being buried far underground does not necessarily contain the
radioactivity (10,000 years worth?)..

Even _IF_ (the proverbial "big if" which in this case is simply huge,
not just big) it were to happen, that it's underground would prevent any
massive immediate release and the effects afterward could be dealt with
w/o any need for rush.

I reiterate that there are far more serious boogey men to worry over
than some theorized disaster at Yucca Mtn is my point. Sure, a large
enough 'quake could make a mess of the facility, but it would not be any
nuclear disaster.

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