RE: Hazards of Coal Burning was RE: Hydrogen as SCAM?

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 12:28:01 MST

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    Kai wrote:

    >
    > I'll think of fission power as a safe technology, as soon as someone
    > shows me an effective method to stop radioactive decay or some device
    > to bring tons of radioactive waste to a place _really_ outside our
    > biosphere. Until then, the remaining risks are too high for my
    > personal measure of safety.

    ### Can you quantify the risk you are exposed to, if large amounts of
    highly-radioactive waste are stored in a geologically stable underground
    repository, in the form of vitrified, metal-encased logs?

    If you were to follow the calculations of nuclear engineers, the only
    persons competent to make them, such danger to you would be probably less
    than the danger of being killed by an asteroid.

    I hope that you would not opt to use the political process (rather than a
    rational assessment of risks) to stop the engineers from doing their jobs,
    that is, providing cheap and safe energy.

    Rafal

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