I have no idea to be honest but as this waste is a processed product i would image that it would be a little more'fruity' on the geiger counter ! -

Lets just hope that the ships bringing the waste from the other side of the planet dont sink or are hijacked etc, etc, etc.

Equally the country that you are living in - do you really want it to become a dumping ground for something that has a half life?

Very good point about the ships being Hijacked etc, I think this kind of stuff is moved in top secret though. Although My brother a Truckie in the UK, can always tell when a load is about to come through, by the advance vehicles on the road.

Obviously I don't want this country to become a dumping ground.

However I won't be Peer'ed into reacting with the flock.

Fact is conventional means of energy production (mining etc) has killed heaps more than the nuclear industry.

Another Fact is, we cannot keep on using Carbon based fuels, (enough cyclones already) Wind and solar and Hydro are not presently up to the job. short of a world wide cultural revolution, where we go back to peddeling bikes, We have a very limited alternative.

Right now the question could be, Nuclear power, and waste, V changing the whole worlds Lifestyle. Personally I dont want to change my lifestyle, to the extent where one would have to live on the alternative Limited wattage.


We've got Major problems eh

Morally it is also upto the producers to kop the waste. Although the users are probably equally to blame.

God forbid anyone would do that

Here is the answer maybe

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...m3_000630.html

It will also sort the Al Queda problem out as we would no longer need the Arabs oil and thus the people who make the money in the middle east, who fund Al Queda will be skint!!

This is 97.25 % 0f 2005 thinking look! At the Geology of were the yellow cake is coming from .....................mm mm

Someone will try and do a moon blockade

This was in our local paper on Thursday

http://www.whitehaven-news.co.uk/new...aspx?id=290941

Jude xx

What on earth does that mean?

I agree. The word "Nuclear" seems to bring out the illogical in people.

I wish people who bang on about "alternative" energy would recognise that unless we stop and reverse the inexorable rise in population, the earth will at some stage be unable to support us at *any* industrial level both from the point of view of raw materials and of energy. Not to mention global warming, water etc.

Congratulating couples on their sixth baby and peddling the myth of wind energy seem to go hand in hand; a bit of thought is needed!

Yes, huge difference; but yellow cake itself does not occur naturally. You're thinking of uranium ore.

Yellow cake is concentrated or "enriched" uranium ore; it's the result of the first process through which the ore passes on its way to becoming fuel for nuclear reactors. It is still radioactive, but not greatly so - certainly not enough to present a significant health risk to human life - and does not become properly dangerous until it is refined in a reactor.

Purifed uranium is the really dangerous stuff, and it's this (in its final form as reactor fuel) that produces the insanely toxic nuclear waste for which we humans have yet to come up with a manageable solution. :scared: Purified uranium is also used in "breeder" reactors to create plutonium; the stuff which forms the lethal "heart" of nuclear weapons. :scared:

Australia's yellow cake industry is a political hot potato, particularly since we are officially classifed as a nuclear free zone.

Many thanks to a decades-old episode of Behind the News for this information; even after all these years, I still remember watching it in my high school classroom!

Just goes to show, the Aussie education system isn't that bad...

"But Aboriginal leaders remain unconvinced."

wonder why??????