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saras

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22. Too dumb to take seriously. Sorry.

Reply to SadPanda (Reply #5)

Fri May 4, 2012, 02:35 AM

May 2012

"First, you are decomposing the waste down to an ash form that is MUCH less radioactive."

Nope. Doesn't happen. Ever. No way. Radioactive waste loses radiation by radioactive decay. No chemical processes have any effect whatsoever. Really basic physics fail.

The pamphlet looks like they took a perfectly reasonable waste incinerator (reduces the volume of waste at the cost of pollution and energy use), and figured that if they sealed it a little better they could burn nuclear waste the same way...

my real questions - just what IS all that nuclear waste in the first place? and why is there so much of it? and why is so much of it things that can be burnt?

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U.S. company hopes to import up to 500 tons of Mexican radioactive waste [View all] Judi Lynn May 2012 OP

I wonder where it will end up once it is back in Mexico. n/t PoliticAverse May 2012 #1

Incinerated? Hold the phone here... doesn't that mean radioactive shit is going to go up the smoke truthisfreedom May 2012 #2

Why, yes. Yes it does. PSPS May 2012 #3

From 'Send us your poor, huddled masses yearning to be free...' freshwest May 2012 #4

+1 wordpix May 2012 #9

Actually, the emissions are much lower than the EPA's safety guidelines on Nm emisions...` SadPanda May 2012 #5

Too dumb to take seriously. Sorry. saras May 2012 #22

no, no, don't worry about that, the nuke industry has it all figured out wordpix May 2012 #10

stock price is $1.55 - don't count on this co. spending billions to clean up an accident wordpix May 2012 #12

So we're the country with the Clean Air Act and MEXICO is sending US nuke waste to FailureToCommunicate May 2012 #6

This is a good thing Gore1FL May 2012 #7

Sorry, but this is not 'loose nuke' material. It's tons of low grade FailureToCommunicate May 2012 #15

also naaman fletcher May 2012 #17

WTF? wordpix May 2012 #8

"Perma-Fix Env. Solutions, Inc"---yeah....right...never heard of them wordpix May 2012 #11

Does the State Dept know about this? Calling Hillary, calling Hillary wordpix May 2012 #13

company received SEC confidential treatment Mar. 2012 re: excluded information wordpix May 2012 #14

So - the Columbia River is in danger of KT2000 May 2012 #16

You are correct, Hanford will NEVER be cleaned up. We need legislators who will say NO... Tikki May 2012 #19

Give us your tired, poor, 1000 year life materials, WHA?!?! benld74 May 2012 #18

Lemme guess, *somewhere* buried in this is a clause which allows non-union Mexican drivers to haul Earth_First May 2012 #20

in this non-regulatory, anti-union environment, anything goes wordpix May 2012 #21