At first the mines seemed like a wartime emergency, and then we were lulled with lies about the peaceful atom and cheap power. It was easy to assume that the waste problem would be solved, as so many others had been, producing spectacular technical progress. However, we failed to notice that loose neutrons are like a spreading stain that can only be slowed down, never stopped until they have run their course. We might as well try to repeal gravity.
At first the mines seemed like a wartime emergency, and then we were lulled with lies about the peaceful atom and cheap power. It was easy to assume that the waste problem would be solved, as so many others had been, producing spectacular technical progress. However, we failed to notice that loose neutrons are like a spreading stain that can only be slowed down, never stopped until they have run their course. We might as well try to repeal gravity.