[TheForge] Clean unused paint cans? OT: POL:

[peter fels]

I live about 50 miles from a big, aging, nuke plant that's about 40 miles from a part of the San Andreas fault, that has a jog in it that hasn't had a major quake for a long time. It's right on the ocean and has saved up a life time of spent waste rods kept in  steel tanks of water
Diablo Cyn ( right name anyway).
I'm typing this using the sparks from that plant right now.
The company that owns it (PG&E) has dodged responsibility for the eventual decommissioning and clean up.
None of the local counties will let them truck the waste across their roads.
My last place was about 25 miles up the coast from the plant, also on the moraine above the "Pacific".
That place was washed away ( it was wonderful to be able to work steel and fish at the same time).
Unpainted 20 ga steel would rust through in a year there.
When they stuffed the building of the plant down the locals throats, saying 
"Clean, Safe, too cheap to meter", they sited it on Avila Bay..a funky little jewel of a harbor.
Ironically, it was later discovered that Standard Oil had leaked millions of gallons nearby.
In the event of a japan size catastrophe, even if the roads were somehow to remain open,
the adjacent population couldn't be evacuated in a reasonably short period of time.
It sure did employ a bunch of welders for a while though.,
My guess/hope is that nukes as an alternative energy source is about over.



On Mar 13, 2011, at 7:09 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:

> Thanks Dave.
> 
> OT: anyone been following the Japanese disaster at the plants?
> 
> What idiots deemed it safe to build nukes on the ring of fire?
> 
> Interesting times are now even more so.
> 
> David E. Smucker wrote:
>> Andy,  For your friend -- have they looked at the "Gamma Storage Lids" for 
>> plastic food safe buckets?  They go down to the 2 gallon size.  Works great. 
>> I use them for flour for my bread baking and for storing dog food.
>> 
>> You can get them from Pleasant Hill Grain.
>> 
>> http://www.pleasanthillgrain.com/kitchen_storage_container_organizer_plastic_knife_rack_shelf_solution.aspx
>> 
>> Worth looking in to.
>> 
>> Dave Smucker
>> Brasstown, NC
>> 
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>> From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
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>> 
>>> Thanks for all the help folks.  This was for a friend looking for
>>> smaller food storage containers - mouseproof ones, that is.
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