Larry Jaques wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:24:49 -0500, the infamous Wes
scrawled the following:
Let me finish the book first, then I'll tell you if Tucker had stats
in there. _Terrestrial Energy_ is quite a good book so far (I'm 129
pgs into it now.) It's subtitled "_How Nuclear Power Will Lead the
Green Revolution and End America's Energy Odyssey_" He (and lots of
others in the know) is banking on nuclear power for the base and
solar, etc. to provide the peak power on a daily basis.
Until this book, I had no idea that it was the nuclear-_trained_
President Carter who derailed the nuclear industry, caused the
proliferation of nuke waste (by not allowing rod recycling), and
brought back coal, the dirtiest of all possible power sources.
--
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
-- Thomas A. Edison
I'm going to guess that maybe President Carter, who was trained in nuclear
technology, maybe he knew something that you and I didn't?
http://www.kndo.com/Global/story.asp...v=menu484_2_10
Hanford Toxic Burial Ground Cleaned Up Near the Columbia River
HANFORD, Wash-- One of the most hazardous Hanford burial grounds along the
Columbia River has been cleaned up.
Cleaning up the 618-7 burial ground at Hanford was a very difficult process.
Clean-up staff had very little records about what was underground. It was three
trenches and between 1960 to 1973 the site received nuclear fuel waste.
This is part of the careful cleanup of 800 barrels of toxic waste. Hanford
officials say a milestone is reached that holds true to the Tri-Party Agreement.
"We found a lot of unknowns and a lot more material than we expected. We handled
that very well and completed the project on time," said Dave Brockman, Manager
of the Richland Hanford Office.
Clean-up of the burial site cost more than $20 million. The Environmental
Protection Agency oversaw the process and says it went smoothly.
"It's probably the most challenging waste site that they have done at Hanford to
date and they've shown that they can meet this challenge and do it," said Dave
Einan, EPA.
Some of the trenches contained chips of zircaloy which can easily ignite. Most
of the waste came from Hanford's fabrication and research facilities. Before
removal, samples needed to be tested to see what type of materials they were.
"You anticipate what's going to happen, you create a series of boundaries, and
you go step by step by step by step very carefully, then stop and you go back
and evaluate," said Chuck Spencer, Rresident of Washington Closure Hanford.
During excavation of the trenches, last August a small fire broke out but there
was no injuries or contamination spread.
"It was a very hazardous project but we have more hazardous one's to come. We
learned a lot from this now we fell we're ready to move on to a couple more,"
said Brockman.
The next clean up project is a site north of this burial ground and another one
that's near Energy Northwest. After this site was cleaned, which took about a
year, workers had removed 180-thousand tons of waste.