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There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

~David R. Brower

Topics: Garbage Place Safely Store Where

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We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

~David R. Brower

Topics: Burying Concrete Cracked Held Open Sea Tried Waste

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We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock.

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Topics: Found Pumped Rock Solid Spread Through Waste

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Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?

~David R. Brower

Topics: Climb Continents Deadly Drifting Edges Forward Garbage How Just Land Masses Moving Otherwise Over Proposed Push Sane Scientists Seriously Some Sure Tuck Waste Will

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Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.

~David R. Brower

Topics: About Another Aware Earth Field Gravitational Make Our Out Proposal Quite Rocket Shots Space Sun Ten Us Waste Would You

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Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

~David R. Brower

Topics: Apollo Away Gave Instead May Moon Now Ocean Pacific Pacific Ocean Remember Right Somewhere Supposed Us You

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Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.

~David R. Brower

Topics: Descendants Garbage Generations Immediate Keep Most Next Our Perhaps Poll Radioactive Requires Ridiculous Solution Suggestion Think Use I Think

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There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

~David R. Brower

Topics: Base Calculations Different Different Kinds Each Just Kinds Many Matters Own Radioactive Safe Side Simplify Waste Worst

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I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

~David R. Brower

Topics: About Did Earlier Except Good Invent Our Out Pointed Political Political System Records System Think Thinking Today Very Were

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The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

~David R. Brower

Topics: Accept Dollar Expected Future Lethal Like Make Manufacturers Now Order Other Presented Project Risk Should Wastes

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: July 1st, 1912

Died: November 5th, 2000

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