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Environment & Energy

PamW

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4. 100% WRONG!!!

Reply to pscot (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 11:38 AM

Nov 2013

pscot states:
It wasn't public opposition that killed it. It was an inability to get the technology right.

pscot,

That's just plain 100% WRONG!!!.

We have the technology right. Yes - we set out to do "glassification", and we got that technology RIGHT with borosilicate glass.

Borosilicate glass meets all the technical specs it needs to meet. We have the technology well in hand.

The reason it wasn't done was POLITICAL. People barraged Congress that they didn't want to spend money on nuclear weapons.

Cleaning up waste is always something that can be "back burnered" when there is opposition; and that's what happened.

The science and technology is GOOD. The POLITICS is the sticking point.

The good thing about science is that it is true, whether or not you believe in it.
--Neil deGrasse Tyson

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That is right... PamW Nov 2013 #1

They were talking about "glassification" pscot Nov 2013 #2

Not the only place on the planet providing proof of this ... Nihil Nov 2013 #3

100% WRONG!!! PamW Nov 2013 #4