Blackmoor Vituperative

If God can do anything, can he make a mountain so heavy that God himself cannot lift it?

The computer requirements to run the Energy Department’s performance program for a national nuclear waste repository are so complex that they may thwart state review of the government’s work, a Nevada official said.

A simulation that aims to forecast whether Yucca Mountain can safely hold thousands of tons of nuclear waste needs a network of 30 master servers and 298 process servers – or a total of 752 processors operating in tandem, said Bob Loux, chief of the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects.

“No participant can reasonably expect to duplicate” the computer cluster, Loux said in a letter sent Tuesday to Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Dale Klein.

“The model is so complicated and so large, and takes so many computers to run it,” Loux said, “that it is fundamentally not checkable by any third party, including the NRC staff.”

(from Nevada Appeal, Nevada Appeal)