On 3/31/06, Michael Maskalans <dml@tepidcola.com> wrote:
> > by the way, nuclear plants do not give off
> > ANY radioactive emissions...
>
> spent fuel doesn't count? or is it okay just becuase it's sealed up and
> trucked to the desert?
Garbage isn't spewed into the atmosphere while the fuel is being
consumed. And the spent fuel is at least containable - it's a messy,
messy problem to deal with the stuff, but at least it *can* be sealed
up. But even pebble-bed reactors mitigate this issue, IIRC - the
individual pebbles aren't terribly problematic, it's just when you
have them in mass quantities in close quarters.
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