It is Most Likely Unwise to Store Nuclear Waste in Florida
June 23rd, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized — Solar Power Author
Nuclear power is one of the best ways to generate electricity, unfortunately there are a couple problems with it. One is that humans cannot be trusted to use the same technology to make weapons to kill each other, or threaten each other with nuclear annihilation to serve their political motives; and there is an issue with storage. Obviously nuclear-waste needs to be stored in a very safe location, underground, in a dry environment, and in a place where there is no chance that it will leak.
According to Florida Trend Magazine; “more than two million pounds of nuclear waste has piled up in South Dade over 35 years, Florida Power & Light is quietly seeking a zoning change to allow six acres of its Turkey Point site to be used for new above-ground storage casks.”
Still, one has to ask is safe to store nuclear waste on the great sandbar state? After all, most of Florida is only a few feet above sea level, and in the event of a Horrific Storm, such as a mega-hurricane the nuclear-waste could be compromised. And, just in case the global warming alarmists are right, which I believe they are not, eventually all of Florida will be underwater and then what do you do with all the nuclear waste that you have there?
What do you do then; do you move it once again, and each time you move it long distances you risk rupturing a container causing the leak, or risking some nut case will try to hijack your shipment. Besides 2,000,000 pounds of nuclear-waste is not exactly a little bit; it’s 1,000 tons, and that’s a lot. Several train car loads in fact. Please consider all this.
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