…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 careless manner. It’…
…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 constructed…
…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…
…ctors. 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 Adams Publisher, Atomic Insights Host and producer, The Atomic Show Podcast…
…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…
…ve an 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 our curr…
…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…
…nderstand 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 bad gr…
…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…
…r waste, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jun 17, 2022 For sodium waste, reuse in new reactors has the potential for a dramatic decrease in waste that needs to be processed for disposal, but only if there is a growing population of sodium-cooled reactors. The potential for reuse of sodium from reactors is limited. The most likely utilization would be as a reactor coolant, but there are currently no LMFRs being constructed where sodium waste is a…
…ors. We should aim for an overall nuclear energy system that enables us to reduce material and labor inputs, reuse valuable materials and knowledge, and recycle those materials whose use has changed their capabilities enough so that they need more substantial treatment. Compared to 1964, we have an important advantage. Unlike then, we have proven through full scale tests that we know how to protect the public in the case of accidents in both large…
…tivation for reestablishing a closed fuel cycle in the United States is to reduce the volume and activity of the materials that need to eventually be stored in the Yucca Mountain. By implementing recycle, the load on the repository for each kilowatt hour of electricity produced with nuclear fission will be significantly reduced and may even allow a single repository to store the waste for hundreds of years worth of reactor plant operation. He desc…
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