This thread got me to look up "radioactive waste". Yikes!
"Certain radioactive elements (such as plutonium-239) will remain hazardous to humans and other creatures for hundreds of thousands of years. Other radionuclides remain hazardous for millions of years. Thus, these wastes must be shielded for centuries and isolated from the living environment for millennia."
You'd think it's not worth producing it in the first place. Yet, they are going full steam ahead on reopening the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. I'm sure many other places too.
He was against the EPA before he was appointed to run it.
He was against the EPA before he was appointed to run it.
He is a climate change denier
The proposal by the U.S. Department of Energy would lower the status of some high-level radioactive waste in several places around the nation, including the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state — the most contaminated nuclear site in the country.
Reclassifying the material to low-level could save the agency billions of dollars and decades of work by essentially leaving the material in the ground, critics say.
Tillerson and others, including Trump have said he decides most things based on his “gut feeling”. These things are, by definition, not “reasoned”.Was that a selective misunderstanding of my post? And why am I even considering a post that says Trump has made no reasoned decisions at all? Of course I am on "one of those threads" that spew things that are clearly untrue, so...
Rrright, and?
Are you certain that there are no experts on the subject that have looked at this before it even made it to Trump?
Or maybe I should just ask what is the range of your expertise in this field
why won't it work?
Of course you can reclassify high level radioactive waste as low level radioactive waste. But this does not change how dangerous the material is.
From the linked article, "The Energy Department wants to reclassify some of the waste that meets highly technical conditions." Those would be conditions like "not actually being highly radioactive"?
Well, it's a good thing that they're not actually doing that then, right?
I tske it you haven't read the actual proposal?
The proposal by the U.S. Department of Energy would lower the status of some high-level radioactive waste in several places around the nation, including the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state — the most contaminated nuclear site in the country.
Reclassifying the material to low-level could save the agency billions of dollars and decades of work by essentially leaving the material in the ground, critics say.
What about when they voted for real estate branding expert instead?I'm sure people knew things like this may happen when they voted for a businessman.
In the OP title, "Trump" is being used as a synechdoche
Heck no!!!! dont do that. The first volcanic cloud you get will be a radioactive one.
Well, good morning to you too, Mr. Thesaurus.
You'll never know how long I spent dithering over whether to call it a synecdoche or a metonym. And then I spelled it wrong. That'll teach me to dig deep before my second cup of coffee.
Tillerson and others, including Trump have said he decides most things based on his “gut feeling”. These things are, by definition, not “reasoned”.
And that means that experts at the DOE have looked at this situation for 30 years.
Oh, I doubt Trump was directly involved. In the OP title, "Trump" is being used as a synechdoche for the Administration as a whole.
The question is, would that be OK to do that? Is there a margin of safety there from past evaluations that may well be worth considering, and looking for a happy medium? Can it be rerated safely?
No offense, Hank, but I just don't believe anyone here has knowledge enough to act as they are on this thread, and it's just another mindless Trump can't do anything right thread, before anyone even thinks about what's really going on.
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