[NukeNet] spent fuel costs

[sdportzline at netzero.net]

regarding spent fuel costs:
Here are 4 short pages of a presentation I gave to the NRC on relicensing. It concludes with a bar chart showing the enormity of our payment schedule which would take 22,500 pages to print just the first half-life of the waste....and thats assuming a 5000 year period is represented by 1/8 of an inch.
In other words the sun will engulf the earth before we have paid out last bill for spent fuel. The financial burden of spent fuel is virtually incalcuable with no meaningful answer when adjusted for inflation over the first billion years. Just kidding, no need to adjust for inflation to see the absurdity of the economics of nuclear power. 
 
• The single greatest issue; second to none other,
paramount too all, surpassing any short or long term
issue, is the problem of generating even more highly
radioactive spent fuel which will require utmost care
and protection for longer than all of recorded history.
 
• To exclude this factor from the re-licensing process
would be one of mankind’s greatest follies whereby....
 
• Future generations will curse our generation for saddling
it with the costs of a perpetual waste bill. The price will
far exceed the benefits of the electrical power we
consumed from nuclear plants.
 
• Imagine how we would view the ancient Egyptians if
they had created a waste and stored it in the pyramids,
causing mankind to ceaselessly foot the bill - just so
they had some long-forgotten benefits for five decades.
(~ 50 years the period of nuclear power generation)
 
• Imagine translating ancient manuscripts where the
Pharaoh’s team of scientific experts and rulers decided
that the controversy of creating this waste was not part
of the decision making process.
 
• Imagine the problems of having to rebuild the Egyptian’s
repository and stopping the leakage of the waste, and
having to guard against the terrorists’ threat or theft of
fissionable materials on and endless basis.
 
Now do the math and realize that if this were
actually the case for the last 5000 years, if the
generations prior to ours had paid all of those
bills until right now, then we would still not have
paid  1/10,000th  of 1 percent of the price of
maintaining site.
 
How can generating more waste be considered
fiscally responsible, or "thoughtful" planning, or
morally acceptable?
 
Scott Portzline
TMI Alert
see attached pdf file
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