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

[Andrew Vida]

I was still in CA when Diablo was being built.  I have never been a tree 
hugging sort, but some reason in such matters seems only... well, 
reasonable.  In those days I was in engineering school and we were all 
shaking our heads at that one.

But I thought it had not been commissioned... guess I was dead wrong there.

peter fels wrote:
> 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>
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 9:00 AM
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>>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Clean unused paint cans?
>>>
>>>> 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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