[NukeNet] spent fuel costs

[Frieda Berryhill]

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, You may not be that far off !!!!!!!!!1

 

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From: nukenet-bounces at energyjustice.net
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sdportzline at netzero.net
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 6:20 PM
To: Nukenet at energyjustice.net
Subject: Re: [NukeNet] spent fuel costs

 

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 mankinds 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

Pharaohs 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 Egyptians

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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