Outrageous Thought of the Day: Nuclear Hypocrisy | The Public Record - 0 views
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How absurd is it that we have the government on the one hand pulling back from using a hollowed out mountain in Nevada to store nuclear waste because of a fear (legitimate I grant) that hundreds or thousands of years hence, some earthquake or other catastrophe could cause the stored waste to leak into the water table, while on the other hand we have this same government deliberately taking some of the most dangerous waste-the actual uranium from the used fuel rods-and putting it into bombs, shells and bullets to be splattered and burned all across the landscape? -
How absurd is it that we have the government on the one hand pulling back from using a hollowed out mountain in Nevada to store nuclear waste because of a fear (legitimate I grant) that hundreds or thousands of years hence, some earthquake or other catastrophe could cause the stored waste to leak into the water table, while on the other hand we have this same government deliberately taking some of the most dangerous waste-the actual uranium from the used fuel rods-and putting it into bombs, shells and bullets to be splattered and burned all across the landscape?
