xoxtxi, spent nuke rods, have you ever seen one, I have, I have looked down at the entire core of a reactor, I have looked directly at the spent nuke rods, you know they give off an incredible, fluorescent or phosphorecent light. I have cut/pasted a technical defintion so that I can educate you. So I am not to worried about what scares you, for I have seen your fear with my own eyes. So what to do with the spent fuel, recycle it. Thats all, very simple, drop it in a breeder reactor and create more energy than you use. That is renewable energy.
Cerenkov Radiation: This effect occurs when a high energy beta emitter is submerged in a dense medium such water. High energy beta particles are able to pass through water at a speed greater than light can pass through water - although not greater than the normal speed of light in a vacuum. As the beta particles pass through the water they alter the magnetic field and displace electrons in the water. The electrons realign themselves back to the ground state as a beta particle passes. In doing so a photon is emitted from each electron. Normally these photons tend to cancel each other out and no light is seen, but when the beta particles exceed the speed of light the photons are emitted with a slight lag, allowing them to escape without interfering with each other. Most Cerenkov radiation is in the ultraviolet spectrum, but part of the energy is visible light and can be seen as a blue glow. Normally this is only visible when there is very intense radiation, such as an operating pool reactor, or a large amount of a powerful beta emitted.
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The fact you could light the Detroit River on fire
That is a lie, you could never ever light the Detroit river on fire. You may be thinking of the Rouge River that flows from Fords Dearborn plant into the Detroit, and even than the Rouge river was never flammable. Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1969, so you amply demonstrate that you speak of what you feel, not what you know.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/01/cuyahoga-catches-fire.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-06/cwru-msc061704.php
Myths surrounding Cuyahoga River fire 35 years ago
CLEVELAND--Once upon a time, June 22, 1969, a river started on fire. So begins the historical event that has turned into the fable of the Cuyahoga River burning.
Fable? Yes, according to Jonathan H. Adler, Case Western Reserve University law pro fessor and director of the Environmental Law Center at the Case Law School, because the river portrayed as so polluted it would burn was, in fact, well on the way to improving its water quality.
And fish, a bellwether of good water quality, were reported again swimming in the river at the time of the fire.
As the 35th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River fire approaches, Adler reflects and revisits his research article, "Fables of the Cuyahoga: Reconstructing a History of Environmental Protection."
In his 57-page paper for the Fordham Environmental Law Journal in 2002, he puts to rest many of the misconceptions that have kept Clevelanders blushing over the national embarrassment of their river burning. He also sets the stage and describes what the federal government was doing at the time to clean up the environment.
"The earlier, more intense fires are symbolic of the fact that the Cuyahoga--and other industrial rivers--were at greater risk of fires in the previous decades," stated Adler.
According to the Case environmental law professor, national funding was inadequate at the time. Also hampering the clean-up process were state laws--and inaction to enforce them for decades--enabling certain industries to continue to pollute with immunity against prosecution and the less civic-minded continued to dump waste into the waterway.
Cleveland's hands had been tied where state laws overrode local authority and did not allow the city to take action against the polluters. The federal government had the River and Harbors Act of 1899 to grapple with pollution, but the general focus of the law was to keep waterways navigable for river traffic. The law barred disposal of wastes but not all liquid wastes, which comprised most of the water's pollutants.
"Revisiting the context and history of the legendary Cuyahoga River fire reveals a complex story about the causes and consequences of various institutions' choices in environmental law," writes Adler.
The fact is that the Cuyahoga River caught fire from debris that collected in the crooked river's bend. The short-lived fire was out before the local press reached the scene to record images of its blaze. But it was a fire that followed ones in 1868, 1883, 1887, 1912, 1922, 1936, 1941, 1948 and the most devastating of all--the 1952 blaze that resulted in nearly $1.5 millions in damage.
Nor was the Cuyahoga River the only fire to burn during that era. Pollutants fueled fires on a river into the Baltimore Harbor, the Buffalo River in upstate New York and the Rouge River in Michigan.
What set the Cuyahoga apart from other fires is that the nation's attention had begun to focus on the environment, and the Cleveland fire fueled the symbolism of the earth's need for repair and the necessary federal regulation to do so, said Adler. The fire led to the passage of the Clean Water Act of 1972.
Adler also laid the historical groundwork of how Cleveland had passed a $100-million bond issue in 1968 to clean up the water (the federal government spent less than $160 million for environmental clean-ups throughout the nation), established the Cuyahoga River Basin Water Quality Committee in 1963 to deal with pollution, enlisted local industries to voluntarily curtail pollution and in early 1969 established the Clean Water Task Force to periodically sweep the river and to collect oil and debris. Cleveland also had spent $30 million to build new sewage treatment facilities from 1967-70.
"Cleveland made significant strides toward environmental improvements in 1968 and 1969," writes Adler.
Despite the Cleveland area's efforts, a 1968 federal report listed the Cuyahoga River as one of the most polluted rivers in the nation, said Adler.
Adler concludes that like all good fables, this one contains some "useful truths" that "can inform an unending search for more perfect institutions of environmental protection."
Look, its simple, I am not being an asshole but seriously, so many people hear are speaking thier emotions derived from being brainwashed by the television, the constant bombardment of propaganda.
This is what enslaves the people to the government. I am not advocating Republican is better than Democrat for both parties are getting rich from the corporations. This is all propaganda. Nothing is green, nothing is green, nothing is green.
I lived through the years of pollution, you have no idea, the Detroit river was dead, no fish, all dead, the Rouge river flows into the Detroit, killing all the fish, the Detroit flows into Lake Erie killing all the fish. That was the 70's, its been fixed, our laws started under NIXON changed all this. Now you can fish and swim in Lake Erie, we have changed, but not the corporations, they are in China destroying the land, that will come back to haunt us.
the corporations are creating more waste going "green", its all a big scam, more minerals and oil are needed to go green, more power plants for a newly created industry, a giant industry as the world has never known, Obama says he will change the world and he is telling the truth, you just have no idea the magnitude of his ideas. The pay off for Obama is seen by looking at Bill Clintons payoff, over a 100.000,000 paid to Clinton in speaking fees by huge corporations, democratic corpotations, corporations ran by democrats, executives who worked at these corporations who are now working on obama's staff.
This is about Obama, when Bush was in office, all the same bullshit was happening, Bush did not build any nukes, Bush is quiet, why, so he can get the same payoff as Clinton
