Hmm, better ignore these signs.
CNN.com – ‘I will be happy to make up more stuff’ – Apr 1, 2005 — A classic.
WASHINGTON (AP) — E-mails by several government scientists on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump project suggest workers were planning to fabricate records and manipulate results to ensure outcomes that would help the project move forward.
“I don’t have a clue when these programs were installed. So I’ve made up the dates and names,” wrote a U.S. Geological Survey employee in one e-mail released Friday by a congressional committee investigating suspected document falsification on the project.
“This is as good as it’s going to get. If they need more proof, I will be happy to make up more stuff.”
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Definitive Letter on problems
Official DOE website
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Is there no deep, hard rock, played out mine that could be converted to store this waste? Somewhere there must be a stable old mine. Well maybe not.
One problem is that mountain ranges are not very stable. The very forces that create them cause the same problems found at Yucca.
Mountains are created by continental plates pushing into each other, causing the plates to buckle up. Then after the plates have stabilized, the mountain range will begin to sink. Both of these actions cause earthquakes. What appears to be solid rock will inevitable end up cracked and fissured.
The good news is these actions take millions of years to happen. But the bad news is they do happen and unpredictably.
In my opinion the best place to store such toxic waste would be in an old deep mine on the Pre-Cambrian Shield. Also known as the Canadian Shield. This area is stable with no seismic activity. The rock is impermeable and extremely dense. Also, because of the high valuable mineral content, there are many played out mines.
The area is relatively unoccupied and covers almost 1,000,000 sq. miles. It approxamates the center of the continent. The weather and geography discourage agriculture.
The bad news is that this area, as the name implies, is next door in Canada. Could Canada be convinced to accept the waste? Maybe. But the Bush administration’s Canada bashing is the best way to treat America’s largest trading partner. If the US could make it worth while, I think there would be a strong chance that Canada might be amiable. Of course this would all be contingent upon all appropriate safety concerns being addressed.
Just an idea
Did they make this up? Dude you are paying for a Dell! You just aren’t getting one.
The Golden LEAF Foundation releases recruitment package plan to lure Dell to Winston-Salem, NC.
Nov. 4, 2004: A bundle of tax incentives, worth at least $242.5 million over 15 years clears the N.C. Legislature.
Nov. 9, 2004: Dell chooses the Triad as the location for their third U.S. factory. Guilford and Forsyth Counties are possible sites, with 1,500 workers employed within five years. Gov. Mike Easley and Kevin Rollins shake hands to seal the deal. Local governments begin to craft incentives.
Nov. 19, 2004: Guilford lays out its offer of $7.1 million in incentives.
Dec. 7, 2004: Greensboro City Council votes to offer $5.3 million in cash grants and other incentives.
Dec. 13, 2004: Forsyth County passes largest economic incentives package in county history, offering $14.8 million in cash and services.
Dec. 14, 2004: Davidson County approves a $23.1 million incentives package.
Dec. 20, 2004: Winston-Salem City Council approves an $18.9 million package. Combined with the Forsyth County offer, the total package is $37.2 million.
Dec. 22, 2004: Dell said it will build its $100 million desktop computer assembly plant on a 189-acre site in Winston-Salem.
Michael Dell, the longest tenured CEO in the computer hardware business. With an estimated net worth of $16.5 billion, the guy is on corporate welfare in North Carolina.
This is Dell from hell. What a bunch of corporate vampires.
It all sounds like some communist planning and everybody is getting a Dell built with tax dollars. No thanks dude, I’m getting a headache.