From:  "G. R. L. Cowan" <gcowan@eagle.ca>
Date:  23 Apr 2004 01:14:48 Hong Kong Time
Newsgroup:  news.alt119.net/sci.energy
Subject:  

Re: Nuclear industry sees revival

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Dave R wrote:
> 
> "G. R. L. Cowan"  wrote in message
> news:408336CE.CCA6F50@eagle.ca...
> > Dave R wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey there Einstein if spent fuel is only extremely dangerous for a
> decade
> > > why must DOE at Yucca Mtn. study storage for 10,000 years????
> >
> > Because a substantial part of their funding,
> > like that of every government agency in the western world,
> > comes from oil and gas taxes.
> >
> > A CANDU fuel bundle would irradiate a person 20 rems per hour,
> > 0.2 Sievert per hour, if held at arm's length after 100 years'
> > cooling.
> 
> No, that's not true. It comes from rate payers of the nuclear power industry
> according to DOE/NV.

Dave R,'s comment was originally top posted. 
I have moved it into sequence with what it putatively 
was a response to. 


--- Graham Cowan
http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/Paper_for_11th_CHC.doc --
fireproof fuel, real-car range, no emissions