…wisest mantras of responsible environmentalism to radioactive materials – Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. It’s almost always irresponsible to casually use any material once and then treat it in a way that makes it difficult or impossible for that material to perform any other function or serve anyone else’s needs. It’s especially irresponsible and wasteful to use rare materials with special physical properties in that selfish and ca…
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Is it really necessary to have a deep geologic repository for used nuclear fuel?
…s, specifically) is one idea I’ve heard at conferences, etc.., as a way to reduce residual weld stresses and thus reduce susceptability to CISCC. And yes, putting degraded (leaking?) canisters inside another canister/overpack is an idea that we’ve considered. That would be much easier than opening a canister and unloading fuel, but I’m sure most utilities would still think of that as a major operation. Also, in the context of very long (multi-cent…
Transcript of Atomic Show #61 – Allison Macfarlane, Atomic Agnostic (June 15, 2007)
…ere else. (49:21) Adams: Part of the reason that I believe that we need to reduce, reuse and recycle most of the materials that we use in an industrial society is that’s just the right thing to do. It’s the right thing to do whether it is office paper, aluminum cans or used nuclear fuel. As it happens, used nuclear fuel has a lot more value, particularly since it gives us the ability to not burn as much coal, oil and natural gas every year as we d…
Blast from the Past – Atomic Insights Letter From The Editor, June 1995 – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
…tact: Letter from the Editor: Recycling: Practice What You Preach Recycle, reuse, reduce. These are the watchwords of people who are concerned about reducing the impact that man and his activities have on the world’s natural resources. The ideas that the words embody are logical and can be reasonably applied to making the world a more prosperous place to live. I was introduced to the concepts at a very early age. As a family project we const…
Reduce, reuse, recycle – good for aluminum; good for uranium
…hrough the reactors. Did you know that US nuclear power plants produce the energy equivalent of 4 million barrels of oil per day using just 2,000 tons of commercial nuclear fuel every year? Anyone who wants to conserve resources and reduce the material impact of human society on the earth’s environment should stop saying “no nukes” and start saying “know nukes.” Rod AdamsPublisher, Atomic InsightsHost and producer, Th…
Recycling used nuclear fuel – Argonne research explained in 4 min video
…amazing potential for future improvements by following the adage of “reduce, reuse, and recycle” to shrink an already minuscule quantity of waste per unit of energy to even smaller sizes and easier to handle forms. There is a communications risk associated with telling some people about the incredible potential associated with nuclear fuel recycling. The video alludes to the challenge; if we can recycle the used material produced by ou…
Fantasy Crossfire debate: Ed Lyman versus Rod Adams on fast breeder reactors
…radiotoxicity and volume. Till and Chang were true believers in the “reduce, recycle and reuse” mantra that guides the thoughts and actions of true environmentalists. Lyman: Moreover, fast reactors have inherent instabilities that make them far more dangerous than light-water reactors under certain accident conditions, conditions that were studiously avoided in the 1986 dog-and-pony show at EBR-II. Adams: The entire design of the EBR-I…
“Waste issue” is part of antinuclear movement strategy of constipation
…uge asset? What antinuke lefty could be against the industry’s efforts to “reduce, reuse and recycle?” More importantly, however, it would change the channel politically. If a successfully operating and ECONOMIC LMFBR facility were up and running, then the industry could shout loud and often that the “waste” is a CO2-free energy resource equivalent to X Saudi Arabias worth Y $trillions, and that we don’t need to spend billions to dispose of it, bu…
How Did the MOX Project Get So Expensive?
…d to pursue for more than two decades. Instead of abiding by the mantra of reduce, reuse and recycle, they want to mix the material with a diluent whose composition is classified and bury it deep underground without allowing any of the potential energy to enter into the world market. Getting rid of the 34 tons covered by the 2000 vintage Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement (PMDA) in this manner is just a beginning; it will establish a p…
Putting excitement back into nuclear technology development
…SFR for 1 year generating 1 GWe of electricity. The 5 tons of used fuel is recycled to remove 1 ton of fission products. 1 ton of depleted U is added to the remaining 4 tons of recycled fuel and returned to the reactor for another year. The 1 ton of fission products will return to background radiation levels in about 300 years. In summary over a period of 200 years, both the LWR and SFR fuel cycles will produce 200 GWe of electricity. the LWR will…
Power cheaper than coal – thorium AND uranium make it possible
…clear-produced hydrogen and oxygen to the coal synfuel process can greatly reduce CO2 production and, for modest CO2 credit, can further reduce the cost of the synfuel. Capturing CO2 from stack gas or even the air will further reduce the amount of CO2 that must be dealt with. This last case is independent of the price of fossil fuels and liquid fuel production costs and prices will have been capped. Of possibly even greater importance, the carbon…
Spamming NRDC about recycling used nuclear fuel
…and your seemingly conflicted position with regard to the mantra of “reduce, reuse and recycle.” Thank you for your assistance. Rod Adams Publisher, Atomic Insights When I hit submit, I was notified by the site that my comment had triggered the spam filter and would not be accepted. Here is a screenshot of that response. Can anyone guess what might have triggered the spam filters? I wonder if the NRDC has chosen to filter comments for…
