Comments on: Nukes, Part 1.5: Nuclear Bomb http://climateprogress.org/2008/06/02/nukes-part-2-nuclear-bomb/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:38:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Mauri Pelto http://climateprogress.org/2008/06/02/nukes-part-2-nuclear-bomb/#comment-13795 Mauri Pelto Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:40:34 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/06/02/nukes-part-2-nuclear-bomb/#comment-13795 My only exposure to the nuclear industry was in spending two years helping select the high level site at Yucca Mountain by providing input on ice sheet size and extent for forecasting climate for the next 100,000 years for the three sites under consideration. Okay, stop laughing at the impossibility of that task. Anyway this experience 20 years ago convinced me of two things. 1. We are irrational in our fear of the hazards of nuclear waste from operation to transport. Both of which we successfully do. 2. It is just too costly to be worth pursuing, without even considering the disposal pricetag. Twenty years later the economics have gotten even worse, I appreciate the detailed analysis you provide of this actual versus percieved (safety) achilles heel. My only exposure to the nuclear industry was in spending two years helping select the high level site at Yucca Mountain by providing input on ice sheet size and extent for forecasting climate for the next 100,000 years for the three sites under consideration. Okay, stop laughing at the impossibility of that task. Anyway this experience 20 years ago convinced me of two things. 1. We are irrational in our fear of the hazards of nuclear waste from operation to transport. Both of which we successfully do. 2. It is just too costly to be worth pursuing, without even considering the disposal pricetag.

Twenty years later the economics have gotten even worse, I appreciate the detailed analysis you provide of this actual versus percieved (safety) achilles heel.

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