Radioactive waste!_LSAT

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Radioactive waste!_LSAT

by gmat_perfect » Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:06 am
Radioactive waste from nuclear power plants has been temporarily stored on-site, but this is not a satisfactory kind of place for long-range storage. Since no suitable plan of safe permanent storage of such waste from the nation's existing and planned nuclear plants has been devised, some people propose that we should stop trying to develop such a plan and instead should shut down all present nuclear plants and build no new nuclear plants.

The proposal mentioned above falls short of offering a complete solution to the problem it addresses because

(A) it would prevent the development of safe technologies for the producing electric power
(B) it does not distinguish between nuclear plants that have, and plants that do not have, a reputation for operating safely
(C) it does not provide for the permanent storage of already existing waste
(D) the generation of electric power from fossil fuels is relatively safe
(E) the risks of unsafe disposal of waste from nuclear power plants lie in the future, but the benefits from such plants are in the present

OA: Later
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by sk818020 » Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:50 am
IMO C.

The solution described doesn't give us a complete solution because what are you going to do with all of the waste you already have.

What is the OA?

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by hardik.jadeja » Mon Jun 14, 2010 3:16 pm
IMO C. Same reasoning as above.

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by nikhilkatira » Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:22 am
hardik.jadeja wrote:IMO C. Same reasoning as above.
AGREE.

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by Shawshank » Thu Jun 17, 2010 3:14 am
IMO -- C
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