ActionAmerica.org Editor John Gaver has invented a novel concept: using problems to solve problems. He has shown how this works on the example of the illegal immigrant problem:
“Let’s use problems to solve problems.
Everyone seems to be focusing on the problems we’re having in this country, rather than on solutions.
For example, they worry about things like Illegal immigration, rebuilding New Orleans and wild animals attacking humans in Florida. So, let’s see how we can use these three problems to solve these same three problems.
It’s as simple as 1-2-3. The result is a win-win-win situation:
- Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.
- Use the dirt to raise the levies in New Orleans.
- Put the Florida alligators in the moat.
No problems.”
This method can also be used on nuclear waste. You see, America also has three other problems:
1) The US nuclear arsenal is too small and inadequate to protect America.
2) There are currently 75,000 metric tons of solid nuclear waste in the US and the federal government hasn’t found any way to dispose of it.
3) Demand for nuclear fuel is growing as a result of the Nuclear Renaissance, and so are the costs of uranium ore and nuclear fuel.
Let’s see if we can solve these problems using them:
1) Recycle all of the recycleable nuclear fuel, using the uranium from this spent fuel as nuclear fuel and the plutonium from spent fuel for nuclear weapon production.
2) Dispose of all nonrecycleable nuclear fuel by dumping it in the Marianas Trench, the deepest sea trench in the world.
See? All three problems solved!
