Discussion for article #236234
Sounds like a plot from O’Bummer to kill all Mormons. Headline tomorrow on WND.
“It’s responsibly managing the material in a location where it will
never be an issue for anyone again,” said the man who will be dead for thousands of years before this stuff really gets cooking. 10 feet down in steel drums. What could possibly go wrong?
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Yes, I thought that was a pretty remarkable statement to make about something that could be uncovered by one person with an excavator (maybe even a shovel) and would remain dangerous for about 100,000 times as long as recorded human history covers.
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No sweat. If Mark Walker and all of the upper management and major stockholders of EnergySolutions are willing to commit to living on the site with their families for the rest of their lives, it sounds like a great solution.
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I have an idea! Why not make shell casings out of it and litter the Middle East with them? C’mon, America, didn’t we learn anything from Iraq?
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Some place with brown skins anyway. They can deflect it better.
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Read up. It’s not quite the danger you think it is just because it has the word “uranium” in it. That being said, it’s certainly not great and I question whether 10 feet deep (and not much deeper) makes this a well thought out plan. Problem is, there’s really no “good” way to just get rid of it. As it is, UF6 storage fields is apparently what we’ve been doing…these are large open air fields where uranium hexaflouride is stored in giant cylindrical vessels, and those raise concerns about corrosion and what the UF6 can do when exposed to the water in air (produce toxins). The reality is this: when you have a soiled diaper, there’s no good place to put it, but you have to put it somewhere. Some prefer the trash and landfills, others prefer the side of the highway (nothing like an emergency changing in a moving car during a long road trip haha). I can live with highway diapers, but I don’t want to live with highway DU.
Well, that’s not really the issue, though. “The rest of their lives” is only about .0009% of the time that this crap will be hot, and includes the time when the containment material is at its youngest. What about, say, 100,000 years from now? What will the land use patterns be? Will the people at the time have the tech to understand radioactivity? Will they be able to read 100 millennia-old signs (even assuming the signs survive)? And remember that’s only a tenth of the full time period from now.
Most of the Utah public is opposed to this, but since our Righteouslature™ is 90% Republican, the public doesn’t have much of a say in anything. They’re gerrymandered in office, Democrats have no money and often don’t even bother to field candidates, and with no price to pay for doing things the public doesn’t like, they just do whatever they want.