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Four drawings here. The first describes the relationship between
the NRC/DOE/Industry trio. Then, two solutions for plutonium disposal
were (are) 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 third 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 fourth tries to show the nuclear weapons/industry for what it is.
