back next Nuke Toons © 2000 Tom Ferguson Three drawings here. Two solutions for plutonium disposal were floating around
and naturally the Department of Energy looked to the one that promised
the most damage to the life system. It's instinctive I guess. Mox
would burn Pu in reactors - not ALL would be burned so there would
still be a disposal problem and the process is very dirty to arrive
at this "solution". Immobilization would treat Pu NOT as a commodity to be out on the highways and by-ways of commerce where
proliferation is more likely (Pu makes really neat terrorist devices).
Rather it would mix Pu with highly radiactive waste in glass "logs"
and then go into storage for it's loooooooooooong life. Well, it
exists, we have to deal with it but only an insane reasoning would
continue to produce more. The second drawing is a little rough on the
pro-nukers but when you think of what they're doing can you be too
rough of them? It also aligns loan guarantees with the more pejorative
term Bail Out. The third is a visual that tries to show nuclear weapons/industry for what it is.
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