Richard Muller's Nuclear Waste
Many American’s assume that nuclear waste can be more dangerous than natural radioactive substances already present in the Earth currently. However, Richard Muller challenges this assumption in his chronicle “Nuclear Waste” by demonstrating the mathematical differences concerning the half-life of numerous radioactive substances. Basically, Muller is warning that “the dangers of storing our waste at Yucca Mountain to be small compared of the dangers of not doing so, and significantly smaller than the other dangers we ignore,” throughout his article. (p.254) Likewise, it has become common to dismiss the other present vulnerabilities, such as the “left over uranium in the soil,” earthquakes and rising mountains that Muller expresses in “My