Comments on: Finland’s Nuclear Waste Disposal Dilemma http://www.theworld.org/2013/01/finland-nuclear-waste/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=finland-nuclear-waste Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Darrin Cassidy http://www.theworld.org/2013/01/finland-nuclear-waste/comment-page-1/#comment-27344 Darrin Cassidy Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:08:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=154479#comment-27344 No No

]]> By: Tom Rizzo http://www.theworld.org/2013/01/finland-nuclear-waste/comment-page-1/#comment-27319 Tom Rizzo Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:06:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=154479#comment-27319 That's funny, Brian.  You make it sound as if we should eat nuclear waste and rub it on our bodies. Can anyone spot a fallacy (there's more than one) in Brian's comment? That’s funny, Brian.  You make it sound as if we should eat nuclear waste and rub it on our bodies. Can anyone spot a fallacy (there’s more than one) in Brian’s comment?

]]> By: billbrueggemeyer http://www.theworld.org/2013/01/finland-nuclear-waste/comment-page-1/#comment-27159 billbrueggemeyer Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:14:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=154479#comment-27159 This reminds me of a rather weird similar story I became aware of. It seems that the scientists who performed the first nuclear reaction at the University of Chicago had no idea what to do with the waste from that. So, they took it out into a forest preserve near Chicago (Red Gate Woods) and buried it rather secretly. Concern got the better of secrecy so that today this place is in a small mowed clearing with a permanent sign telling you not to picnic of dig there. The problem at Onkalo is not what will happen 100,000 years from now, but the process of getting there. I hope they allow picnicking. This reminds me of a rather weird similar story I became aware of. It seems that the scientists who performed the first nuclear reaction at the University of Chicago had no idea what to do with the waste from that. So, they took it out into a forest preserve near Chicago (Red Gate Woods) and buried it rather secretly. Concern got the better of secrecy so that today this place is in a small mowed clearing with a permanent sign telling you not to picnic of dig there.

The problem at Onkalo is not what will happen 100,000 years from now, but the process of getting there. I hope they allow picnicking.

]]> By: Brian Hanley http://www.theworld.org/2013/01/finland-nuclear-waste/comment-page-1/#comment-27158 Brian Hanley Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:31:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=154479#comment-27158 Are you aware that there are at least 4 billion tons of uranium dissolved in the world's oceans?  Or that thousands of tons of uranium, thorium and radium are distributed across the world from burning of coal? That more uranium gets into the air from coal burning every year than is mined and winds up as yellowcake? Or that the uranium content of coal ash is no higher than the uranium content of a granite kitchen counter?  In other words, more radioactive material than is in the entire Finnish nuclear waste supply is already out there in the environment - by astronomically larger quantities. There are millions of times more naturally occurring uranium than there are of all radionuclides in human hands. Most of the rad-waste that must by law be buried and contained is so low-level that it may be less radioactive than a granite kitchen counter. Are you aware that there are at least 4 billion tons of uranium dissolved in the world’s oceans?  Or that thousands of tons of uranium, thorium and radium are distributed across the world from burning of coal? That more uranium gets into the air from coal burning every year than is mined and winds up as yellowcake? Or that the uranium content of coal ash is no higher than the uranium content of a granite kitchen counter? 

In other words, more radioactive material than is in the entire Finnish nuclear waste supply is already out there in the environment – by astronomically larger quantities. There are millions of times more naturally occurring uranium than there are of all radionuclides in human hands. Most of the rad-waste that must by law be buried and contained is so low-level that it may be less radioactive than a granite kitchen counter.

]]> By: Steve Ladd http://www.theworld.org/2013/01/finland-nuclear-waste/comment-page-1/#comment-27156 Steve Ladd Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:45:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=154479#comment-27156 Thanks for this story on the Onkalo facility.  INTO ETERNITY, the film about the facility mentioned in the story, is available  in North America from The Video Project: http://www.videoproject.com/intoeternity.html Thanks for this story on the Onkalo facility.  INTO ETERNITY, the film about the facility mentioned in the story, is available  in North America from The Video Project: http://www.videoproject.com/intoeternity.html

]]> By: Albert Stroberg http://www.theworld.org/2013/01/finland-nuclear-waste/comment-page-1/#comment-27154 Albert Stroberg Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:31:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=154479#comment-27154 Another possibility seems very likely to me- in 200-300 years from now technology will find this stuff a valuable asset. Nuclear fusion and recycling techniques will continue to evolve in an industry barely 60 years old.  Another possibility seems very likely to me- in 200-300 years from now technology will find this stuff a valuable asset. Nuclear fusion and recycling techniques will continue to evolve in an industry barely 60 years old. 

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