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I don't think it is a bad as you depict Patrick. The talk is of nuclear
power for Australia at present. Greenhouse gas is a big problem and people
are now seeing it as a bigger threat than that of the disposal of nuclear
waste. The OZ Government is looking at storing the waste (which, by the
way, is very small in amount) in the dry centre.
As for looking ahead 10 000 years, that would be foolish. We can have no
conception of the world in a 1000 years never mind 10 000 and it would be
a waste of time to even attempt to guess at it. However we have a pretty
good idea that significantly large parts of some countries will be under
water in a few hundred years if we don't stop producing greenhouse gas in
such huge quantities. Coal and oil are running out anyway; this country
has huge reserves of the material for producing nuclear power and a recent
poll on a nation wide TV programme showed that the majority of those
expressing an opinion were in favour of going the way of nuclear power.
After all some countries have been using it for 40 years with no problems.
Bob VK6BE.
> Andrew,
> just think back what happened the last 200 years, or even 2000 years.
> Empires came and went, institutions and services were installed and they were
forgotten again; can
you really believe that it will be possible to monitor nuclear waste for
10.000 years?
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