Re: I thought of an initialy regulated industry!... (fwd)

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> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 22:08:08 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
> Subject: Re: I thought of an initialy regulated industry!... (fwd)

> > Consider the difference in volume of these two waste products...
> 
> 
> Really?  The amount of fuel that goes into a nuclear plant is farirly low,
> compared to the amount shoved into a coal plant.

Exactly my point.

A 1000MW coal plant produces approx 300,000 tons of waste product per year.
A nuclear plan produces .5. This means the concentration of the chemicals in
the coal plant are much lower by many orders of magnitude than the nuclear,
hence making the nuclear waste more toxic by a great deal.


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At 09:56 PM 10/7/98 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> A 1000MW coal plant produces approx 300,000 tons of waste
> product per year. A nuclear plan produces .5. This means
> the concentration of the chemicals in the coal plant are
> much lower by many orders of magnitude than the nuclear, 
> hence making the nuclear waste more toxic by a great deal.

If dilution is an acceptable option, then we should just dump
nuclear waste in the ocean.  In fact the Russians have been
doing that for many years, and no one has been able to
produce any suffering victims from the ocean dumping. 

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Jim Choate wrote:
> 
> Forwarded message:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 22:08:08 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
> > Subject: Re: I thought of an initialy regulated industry!... (fwd)
> 
> > > Consider the difference in volume of these two waste products...
> >
> >
> > Really?  The amount of fuel that goes into a nuclear plant is farirly low,
> > compared to the amount shoved into a coal plant.
> 
> Exactly my point.
> 
> A 1000MW coal plant produces approx 300,000 tons of waste product per year.
> A nuclear plan produces .5. This means the concentration of the chemicals in
> the coal plant are much lower by many orders of magnitude than the nuclear,
> hence making the nuclear waste more toxic by a great deal.
> 

The latter does not necessarily follow from the former.  Consider the
example of natural gas and gasoline.  You don't get to conclude your
argument that easily! :)

Michael Hohensee