If you follow one of the links, here is an excellent anecdote about the regulations: > A forklift at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory moved a small sp

If you follow one of the links, here is an excellent anecdote about the regulations: > A forklift at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory moved a small spent fuel cask from the storage pool to the hot cell. The cask had not been properly drained and some pool water was dribbled onto the blacktop along the way. Despite the fact that some characters had taken a midnight swim in such a pool in the days when I used to visit there and were none the worse for it, storage pool water is defined as a hazardous contaminant. It was deemed necessary therefore to dig up the entire path of the forklift, creating a trench two feet wide by a half mile long that was dubbed Toomer’s Creek, after the unfortunate worker whose job it was to ensure that the cask was fully drained. >The Bannock Paving Company was hired to repave the entire road. Bannock used slag from the local phosphate plants as aggregate in the blacktop, which had proved to be highly satisfactory in many of the roads in the Pocatello, Idaho area. After the job was complete, it was learned that the aggregate was naturally high in thorium, and was more radioactive that the material that had been dug up, marked with the dreaded radiation symbol, and hauled away for expensive, long-term burial. Also about one of the primary testing groups effectively failing workers for radiation gathered on their shoes from radon in rain water. There are very great reasons that LNT and ALARA radiation risk models are very flawed. So, stopped clock? Ok. But that doesn’t mean there is nothing we can fix here. Make them entirely wrong not even right twice a day and I’ll be interested in ideas past the over-regulation. Until then, we have evidence that the industry is being made artificially expensive. And that it isn’t actually comparable to other options.