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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 28-Jul-2009 At 1:51:04 PM billk

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On 28/07/2009 evanbb wrote:
>On 28/07/2009 Wendy wrote:
>>After exhausting the books I carried on my walk, I borrowed a copy of
>>James Lovelock's The Revenge of Gaia.
>
>Wow, I had a feeling Lovelock was a bit batty. Not so, he's completely
>barking by the sound of it.
>

Yep.

>>I wonder about nuke waste. The radioactive atoms came out of the ground
>initially; why not disperse them back to where they came from? I suspect
>the reason is that the reactor creates new, worse products, but I've never
>seen a good explanation.
>

"New worse products" is basically it.

You wind up with quite a lot of intensely radioactive material that is hard to do anything with for a long time. (Spent fuel rods etc.) You also get huge amounts of moderately radioactive material that is very expensive to isolate from the biosphere.