Here is a link to a recent National Academies of Science report on one aspect of the nuclear waste problem:
Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel http://newton.nap.edu/catalog/11263.html The Executive Summary gives the basic findings and recommendations. However, the full report includes additional information that illustrates why dealing with nuclear waste is not a matter of simply burying it. By the way, the Senate Appropriations Committee is set to vote tomorrow (June 29) on a new radioactive waste plan that would give the Department of Energy authority to put an "interim" high-level waste storage site anywhere it wants, even over the objections of the state and local government. This is a provision in the FY 2007 Energy and Water Appropriations bill. Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
