Lake Huron Nuclear Waste Dump

[Twocoda]

To me it is short sightedness to even consider this as a solution. They say that its safer to store the nuclear waste "onsite" saving the hazards that come with trucking it away...but yet ...there will still be trucking as they will be bringing it in to the DGR from other facilities...Keep in mind...Lake Huron drains down to Lake Erie and so on so if you dont think this effects you ....you better check to see where your water comes from ...time is running out to be heard ...

[spincast]

I'm sure there's nothing to worry about Dave.

Fuel bundles, when discharged from CANDU reactors, are highly radioactive and are generating significant amounts of heat from radioactive decay. (In the sketch, 10E16 means 10 to the 16th power, i.e., 10 x 10 16 times.) The radioactivity is due essentially to two sources, the fission products and the transuranics (plutonium and other elements heavier than uranium that have been produced in the reactor from the capture of neutrons by uranium atoms). Because of differences in the natures of these two groups, two different approaches are needed to protect against the radioactive hazards that they present:

The bulk of the fission products, including those causing most concern, are very highly radioactive. They must therefore be surrounded by shielding to absorb the radiation that they emit for the period that the radiation is strong enough to be harmful. Since their intense radioactivity is due to their relatively short half-lives, e.g., cesium-137 with 30 years, it decreases rapidly.

After about ten half-lives of the fission products, i.e., several hundred years, the radioactivity is dominated by the transuranics which have very long half-lives, e.g., plutonium-239 with 24,000 years, and hence very low specific activity. The property most relevant to health is that their radioactivity is by emission of alpha-particles (Chapter 2) which have only a very short range in matter, so that they must be prevented from entering the human body, by inhalation or ingestion.*

 

And its not like it could ever leak. History has proven we know how to handle this stuff, right?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/08/23/fukushima-water.html

 

Of course the problem is, the cat is sort of out of the bag now, so to speak ?

 

*Quote From J.A.L Robinson - Decide The Nuclear Issues for yourself.

[Twocoda]

Word to the wise....do not eat blue fin tuna from the pacific ocean...they are contaminated with cesium and traveled to and from Japan 3 times since Japans disaster. WHat really gets me ...is the DGR is going to be set in Limestone....can we think of any softer rock to put this stuff in ? I dont think its a gamble worth taking since the consequences are epic.

[big guy]

Those two on the panel don't come across like they are overly intelligent.

[Twocoda]

Those two on the panel don't come across like they are overly intelligent.

I agree ...it takes social media to distribute things that the Government wont....they are definitely far from professional calibre news casters...kind of reminded me of the highschool broadcasting we had as kids