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So now even areas that we thought were safe from mining operations are to be contaminated by reverse-mines? Is everywhere

to be turned into watseland? WE MUST STOP CREATING THE NUCLEAR WASTE IN THE FIRST PLACE. STOP. JUST STOP.

We are all relatives. Bear

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Technical Announcement: U.S. Shale Formations Might Safely House Nuclear Waste Released: 7/23/2013 11:00:00 AM

Contact Information: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey Office of Communications and Publishing 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr, MS 119 Reston, VA 20192

Shale and other clay-rich rock formations might offer permanent disposal solutions for spent nuclear fuel, according to a new paper by the U.S. Geological Survey. There is currently about 70,000 metric tons of this spent fuel in temporary storage across the United States.While no specific sites have been evaluated for storage potential in the United States, USGS scientists have looked at several research efforts, including projects that are underway in France, Belgium and Switzerland to confirm that shale formations in those countries are favorable for hosting nuclear waste repositories.

WASTED HUMANS WASTING AWAY IN A WASTELAND OF WASTE

14:25

A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear

Explosion Since 1945 – by Isao Hashimoto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY&feature=related

Dear Ones

I imagine that you can guess my opinion about how sensible

we humans are to create nuclear waste. We can call it all sort

of names, such as electricity generators, or reactors, or limited

strike, or bombs, or what have you. It is all carcinogenic waste.

Self replicating waste wasting whatever else is unfortunate or

foolish enough to be exposed to the wastefulness emanating from

the production of this waste. The Wasters are even now, knowing

full well the wasteful nature of their wasted efforts, are planning,

designing building, getting permits, and avoiding regulation of the

wasteful wasting industry. The wasters are trying to turn us all into

wasted humans wasting away in a wasteland of waste.

What can we do?

We can just stop.

Doesn’t seem so difficult, does it? Might be uncomfortable for little

while. With as much waste as has been wasted already in our wasted

paradise, it will be a really big bother to clean up. And as most little

boys will tell you, it is much more fun, and easier, too, to blow stuff

up than to clean up the blown up stuff after it is blown up. Oh well.

One can’t finish if one doesn’t even start.

With the monstrous weapons that already exist, it does seem sensible

for the wasters to stop provoking each other, on purpose or by

ignorance, merely out of fear of being permanently wasted. But it

seems that permanent mass terminal waste isn’t a deterrent to war

provocation. Nope. Mass terminal waste seems to be the desirable out-

come for some __________ . You’ll have to supply your own word

there. I just don’t know what would be a good appellation for That

Sort. I don’t know what to call the enablers either. Except, sadly

“the rest of us” does seem to fit rather well.

Bear

Here are some links and some information and some quotes and some opinions about nuclear war and power and devices and fallout and consequences. You are welcome to suggest worthwhile reading matter, incidents, ideas, opinions, and inforation that would be of interest to more than one person. How to dispose of nuclear waste is another topic of interest.Also, if you do not want your response published, but do want to respond just say so.

I used to think that the sun would be a reasonable dumping ground. But maybe not. Dunno. Would we create some sort of unknown chain reaction? Is there any way to work out a test model? Is it a waste to have to spend so much attention, time, resources trying to figure out how to undo. If we just had not done the do part to begin with. If we could just refrain for harassing each other. If we could (all) just do without some stuff ….

14:25 Watch Later Error A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 – by Isao Hashimotoby aConcernedHuman834,912 views

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea’s two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).
Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing”the fear and folly of nuclear weapons.” It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.

http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/

When I watched the YouTube video of the nuclear explosions, I was horrified.

I was a child in central south Florida when the Cuban missile Crises occurred.

At school there were daily bomb drills. As if squatting and covering the

backs of our necks with our childish hands would help. I, as the oldest child,

stored water, foods, clothing for my little brothers, in a closet in a central

hallway, at home. Whenever there was a siren

sounding, or airplanes at that certain height (you know what I mean … there is a certain

sound that bombers make when at that height and speed … a sound that is the

White Noise of nightmares) I would make my brothers grab the pillows and

covers from their beds and squat in the closet with me and our baby sister,

covered by the bedding. until I could determine what the siren was for. Usually

it was for fire. When the wind was right, I could hear the siren from a volunteer

fire station in a nearby town.

As a teen, and young adult, I protested the use of nuclear power. Anywhere.

But obviously we protestors were not successful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pv4j_3YvdY&feature=player_embedded We really do not need nuclear power.

Martin Indyk forecasts the United States will go to war with Iran over its nuclear program. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-will-go-to-war-with-iran-in-2013-says-ex-u-s-ambassador-to-israel-1.465366

Greenpeace Activists Evade Security at Nuclear Swedish Power Plants
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/10/10

* Seventy-four nuclear reactors in tsunami-risk areas Source: Homeland Security Newswire LLC Themes: Critical Infrastructure Hazards: NBC – Nuclear, Biological, Chemical; Tsunami URL: http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=28650

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