“Most of this waste production is entirely unnecessary”
This highlights something that many people do not know about nuclear waste: most of it, known as low-level waste, is not actually any more radioactive than it was before it came into the plant. Coffee, for example, is naturally radioactive. Coffee that passes through a nuclear power plant is carefully isolated and contained, then placed in a lined trench and monitored for indeterminate periods.
Why?
Political pressure.
Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Politics and Regulation, Waste
Posted on May 31, 2006 by Stewart Peterson |
