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Health
Issues Where to start? How
about a little primer on the storage of
radioactive waste materials.
Under the best of circumstances with production of radioactive
waste as a byproduct of benign power generation, it's clear we
have no safe means to handle or store the radioactive waste.
It's just a question of time and extent with regard to
groundwater pollution by radioactive materials. This is an
ecological disaster that we should not arrogantly inflict on
generations to come.
Engineers can be a little crazy at times.
There will apparently always be a ready supply of engineers who
believe they can avoid
Murphy's Law. This is how we end up with Chernobyl and Three
Mile Island. I think it would be reasonable if a civilian
population could challenge the engineers to demonstrate their
prowess by cleaning up a past engineering disaster as a
prerequisite to launching new technologies. Here is a
short list of the cleanup engineering projects:
- Chernobyl
- Three Mile Island
- Hanford
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