On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
> I *am* needling my "organic" friends. We tend to needle each other. They
> point out the problems with my technophilia and I detail the assumptions
> behind their 'harmony with Nature' shtick. It evens out in the end.
I certainly have nothing against mutual identity assertion. Most social life is made of this. Heck, most private moments alone in our head are made of this.
> We should, in short, prepare ourselves to counter Exelon's lazy-ass
> plans (to name a very specific example) with our own, insisting on
> better, simpler, cheaper designs and mature oversight of the fuel/waste
> cycle. (Ideally, radioactive waste management would be an international
> affair.)
This seems to skip over my length of time point. Any solution to nuclear waste disposal that depends on social arrangements is not a solution because social arrangements cannot plausibly be expected to endure over even a tiny fraction of the relevant time frame. So the only conceivable solution would be purely technical solution, e.g., a means of making the stuff permanently non-radioactive and non-reactive.
Michael