"Capt. JG" wrote in
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Actually, I did support nukular energy until I realized that's
actually much more polluting as far as carbon goes. Lots of people,
including me, forgot about all the mining, refining, processing
required. It's not a panacea, and it's only clean at the end of the
process (not really though if you think about the long-term storage
requirements for the spent fuel rods).



There's two solutions already available to cure both the fuel production
problem and the waste storage, long term, killing another huge problem
for the USA in the process, literally!

Fuel production can be cut way back if we let them build the BREEDER
REACTORS that create their own fuel....instead of buying it from big
ENERGY companies own by the politicians and bankers. Problem solved....

I have a great solution for waste storage......

We confiscate a 1-mile-wide swath of land from the Mexican border inland
inside the USA from Brownsville, TX to the Pacific Ocean. We dig a
series of containment pits 1/2 mile wide with no gaps except for very
narrow border crossing points that can be defended from the invasion.
Fuel has already been glassified, which keeps it from eroding away, not
much of a problem in the DESERT along the Mexican border anyways. We
truck all the current waste to the pits and simply dump it in, creating
a radioactive no-mans-land to protect the country from its current
invasion of illegals. Anyone crossing into the country except in fast-
moving vehicles at the tiny gaps simply receives his/her lethal dose of
radiation and dies in the pits to remind the rest of them what will
happen to them if they cross that border! The gaps won't require more
than cursory monitoring, either, because they are so long and so narrow
that you MUST be moving in a vehicle over 70 MPH to limit your dose to
something tolerable. Anyone walking through that gap is DEAD MEAT. Two
problems taken care of PERMANENTLY....We can even take down the fence.

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BTW, I'm 100 miles, exactly, east of one of our less-than-safe Nuke
stations, Vogtl, on the Savannah River just inside Georgia Power. I've
created somewhat of a stir in the Emergency Services bureaucracies,
here, asking why there is no automatic alarm, for instance, on the NOAA
weather transmitter for nuclear accidents at Vogtl or our Nuclear
Weapons dump in Goose Creek, SC...or our Nuclear Weapons airplane
loading facility less than a mile from my house on the river. The blank
look on their faces is priceless. They have no intention of setting off
any alarms to warn Charleston if we're about to be irradiated to
death....in line with FEMA's plans to enslave us all....