On Monday 22 January 2007 11:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Stephen!
Been overwhelmed, just catching up on OT. This is intriguing. By my calculator they will have to reseal the packages 178.57 times. What a growth industry! They have to start stockpiling zircon ceramic material now, and warehouse it for 1400 years until it is first needed. Then every year repackage the oldest ones. Better leave a 10 year window so that is 1390 years to prepare for this. That is 69.5 generations of caretakers, figuring an average of 20 years on the job (start at age 62, die at 82). Imagine the Yoda-like characters . . . > <http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0111/p14s01-stgn.html> > > A research team from Oxford University in Cambridge, England, and the > Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., found that > radiation from plutonium degrades zircon-based ceramics far faster than > previously estimated - in 1,400 years, rather than the 250,000 years that > waste-management experts had suggested. -- Regards, Pete http://www.pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
