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@Edano, how did these SPF videos not get wider circulation? They were posted Nov 14 but are new to me, though I don't watch Tepco's press releases, I also don't recall seeing these posted around youtube as most Tepco vids. Super-close shots on SPF4 assemblies : www.youtube.com

Good morning everybody. Lilly, the Gorleben blockades are worthwhile documenting, particularly because not much thought is paid to the very important issue of waste endstorage in the fuel cycle other than no state wants the waste. So a good part of it sits in SFPs and on open parking lots as we saw at North Anna with no plans of going forward in sight. In addition, I do not see in this country the security the transport of such material is afforded in Europe. Where is the Patriot Act when you need it most? Only goes to show how inept this Homeland Security scheme is.

@lillymunster , exactly what I meant. Just look at the different routes traversing the territories of a number of countries all the way from Atlantic coast of the Bretagne to Northern Germany that must be thought out and varied to transport the stuff in Europe and feel half-ways safe. The protests help highlight the immensity of the problem. I remember pics of cask transports in California. I saw two police cars and much concern how to deal with the traffic. The enterprise seemed totally vulnerable to me. People here pursue a Vogel Strauss (ostrich?) policy, that is what we cannot solve, we ignore. By contrast, those million-dollar body scanners at airports represent a very important guarantor of our safety!

..... the transport conundrum makes a great argument for alternative sources of energy. The more decentralized the production of electric power, the less vulnerable the grid.

@Peter Indeed. It can't be a coincidence that power shortages in Portugal became less and less common as more and more decentralized energy sources were added to the grid. I can't remember when was the last time I was left without electricity for more than a few seconds. Must have been a few years.

About the pirates thing, that would be scary, although I don't think Somalia has technology to profit from nuclear waste. And you can't just go and sell nuclear waste in the market without being noticed.