[19830107]IP75_放射性废物悖论.pdf

Science, January 7 , 1983, pp. 33-36. e p r i n t e ? w i t h pe-rnission of copyrignt claimant by the Library of C o n r s s , acxqressional Xesearc:? Service. The Radwaste Paradox Political pressures push for a speeding up of the geologic disposal program, but technical considerations may call for a slowing down Early explorers and serrlm of the Colorado PIateau, in coming to a deep b a t h f u b s valley just cast of what is now the ColonddJtah state line. w m astonished at how the Dolom River. a triburary of the Colorado. cuts across the valley and thmugh its steep walls af right angles. They d i e d this place Paradox Valley, and the much larger geologic province in southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado of which the vai- ley is a psn wm to become known as the Paradox Basin. As it happens. the Para- dox Basin is one of the place where the U.S. Depvrment of Energy (DOE) is looking for a site for a deepmined reps-. it- for high-level radioactive waste. This seems appropriate4 y s ymbijlic b e cause the geologic disposal problem has incrcluingiy taken on the aspert of a pditicai and tdnicai conundrum, re- plete with rcll or seeming contndicxions and Ppndoxes. A cmuai p a d o