Nuclear Waste Concerns Resurface


	Nuclear Waste Concerns Resurface

tabsey

1-22-2008 9:13 PM

182 views

tags:

science, nuclear

tabsey says:

We talk about the waste products but there is still all that polluted material that the factory is made of.

1 Comment |

Add a Comment

1-23-2008 4:15 PM

masbury

... which no one knows what to do with!

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

what we know about psychological of "plac...

What is Science?

Is Our Solar System a Rarity in Milky Way?...

10 More Crazy Science Facts You Didn't Know

US Town Turned Into An Open-Air Prison

SF Author: Gregory Frost

More clips from tabsey

Saudi Arabia wins 9/11 court battle

FRENCH TRADER WAS FORCED TO WORK 30 HOURS ...

Rising ocean acidity slows marine fertilis...

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from January 22, 2008

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e4245476-5028-4001-acd4-ded4bd8e37a0/326065DA-9152-4703-86B2-DC33D8A8BFD2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012208EB.shtml" href="http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012208EB.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.truthout.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012208EB.shtml"><I>Burial, recycling have limits; France eyes chemicals to shrink, cool waste.</I></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012208EB.shtml"><P><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">    Beaumont-Hague, France - Thousands of canisters of highly radioactive waste from the world's most nuclear-energized nation lie, silent and deadly, beneath this jutting tip of Normandy. Above ground, cows graze and Atlantic waves crash into heather-covered hills.
</FONT></FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012208EB.shtml"><P><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">    The spent fuel, vitrified into blocks of black glass that will remain dangerous for thousands of years, is in "interim storage." Like nearly all the world's nuclear waste, it is still waiting for the long-term disposal solution that has eluded scientists and governments in the six decades since the atomic era began.
</FONT></FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012208EB.shtml"><P><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">    So far, though, recent talk of a nuclear renaissance has focused on the "front end," or reactor construction. Engineers are designing the next generation of reactors to be safer than today's - and they're being billed as a solution to global warming. Nuclear reactors do not emit carbon dioxide, blamed for heating the planet.
</FONT></FONT></FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/326065DA-9152-4703-86B2-DC33D8A8BFD2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Blog; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Related Clips

More clips from tabsey

Today's Top Clips