Jerry Avins wrote:
> Carlos Moreno 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.

What makes you think that the total radioactive content of all those
cinder blocks (plus the carbon that went up the smokestack) is less
than that of your share of the output of a nuclear power plant?


IMHO. YMMV.
--
rhn