[email protected] wrote:
> 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?

I tell you what: propose as a way to dispose of nuclear waste,
distributing it in tiny quantities in all brick hereafter manufactured.
With it so diluted and spread out, that ought to be acceptable to you.
One could look at a brickyard and see a new meaning for "atomic pile".

Jerry
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