Jim Choate wrote:
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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 22:08:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> Subject: Re: I thought of an initialy regulated industry!... (fwd)
Consider the difference in volume of these two waste products...
Really? The amount of fuel that goes into a nuclear plant is farirly low, compared to the amount shoved into a coal plant.
Exactly my point.
A 1000MW coal plant produces approx 300,000 tons of waste product per year. A nuclear plan produces .5. This means the concentration of the chemicals in the coal plant are much lower by many orders of magnitude than the nuclear, hence making the nuclear waste more toxic by a great deal.
The latter does not necessarily follow from the former. Consider the example of natural gas and gasoline. You don't get to conclude your argument that easily! :) Michael Hohensee