Carlos Moreno wrote:
> Jerry Avins wrote:

...

>> Where do you propose to put the ashes?
>
>
> Well, the trick is that for every trillion of terawatts
> that you generate with nuclear energy, you generate less
> ashes than when generating a gigawatt by burning petroleum,
> or equivalently, cause less damage to the environment than
> hydro-electric energy (which BTW is too limited anyway --
> it's not accessible everywhere, as thermo-electric
> potentially is, and nuclear could be)

I can form non-nuclear ashes into cinder blocks, and build things with
them. You can't do that with nuclear waste.

Jerry
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