…nergy remains in used fuel assemblies. We’ve even found a few good ways to recycle and reuse it that have — so far — been blocked by a few oil & gas dependent governments. The US is included in that group, but changes are afoot. Rod Adams on May 02 2016 I was curious about one of Bob Wallace’s sources — Mycle Schneider — so I did what any internet user would do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycle_Schneider Here is a sample quote from the Book of…
…ck imagination and are not driven by a desire to use innovation to reduce, reuse and recycle valuable material — will require the construction of thousands of machines that turn the heat generated by the destruction process into electricity. He’s right: That fleet of thousands of 600 MW (thermal) waste-to-energy plants will need to run for hundreds of years just to get rid of the material that we have already stockpiled as either depleted uranium…
…US government wastes are no exception. But you’re not going to be able to recycle all of the actinides. The existence of WIPP — a deep geological repository, by the way — is evidence of that. Sure, you can recycle most of the actinides, especially the low hanging fruit in the commercial fuel, but what do you do about the rest? What did you think, the repository is cheap???? Frankly, I don’t think that $0.001 per kWh is all that expensive. Do yo…
…on. Dan and I described how the industry’s initial plan was to recycle and reuse fuel. We explained how that option had been made fiscally risky by the Carter Executive Order that outlawed recycling just as the first real commercial facility was getting ready to start operating. Aside: Yes, I know that Reagan changed the law, but what investor in their right mind would be willing to risk billions on an industry that could be made illegal with the…
…ls and plans to meet a dwindling energy supply. We are told to recycle and reuse everything else, but this special asset we are to throw away. Here, in a unique historical situation, we suddenly find ourselves with a limitless, proven, completely non-polluting energy source. Nuclear power produces no air pollution, no global warming gases, no acid rain, and its solid wastes are so small in volume that they can be canned, accounted for, and respons…
…ry. There are plenty of other ideas for employing the concepts of “reduce, reuse, and recycle” to get a larger portion of the potential energy out of raw material inputs. Molten salt reactors that use fissile material initiators to convert fertile material into fuel, fast neutron liquid metal reactors, epithermal resonance absorption converter reactors, the DUPIC cycle, and traveling wave reactors that act more like a well managed community fire b…
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 a compost heap that received yard waste and selected kitchen scr…
…o send a note back to the author. Following my personal mantra of “reduce, reuse, and recycle”, I thought I would share that note with you. Ms. Galbraith: Your article titled “Certainties of 1970s Energy Crisis Have Fallen Away” was interesting, but it contained an inaccurate and misleading sentence: “The only alternative to succeed on a large scale, however, has been wind power, and most of that growth did not occur until the past decade.” You me…
…uthern Georgia. He hated waste; he was born in 1925 and learned to use and reuse everything during his Depression era childhood. I’ll never forget his unique recycling system. He loved fruit and had planted about a dozen different citrus trees in our small suburban yard. After the trees began bearing fruit, he decided that the skin was going to waste, so he built a compost heap out of chicken wire. Mom, also a product of the Depression and the dau…
…ry it, making it harder for the eventual time when it will be recycled and reused.) Here is the explanation that he gives when questioned why he is sponsoring the bill: Leeper said there could be an estimated 25 to 30 applications for new nuclear plants within the next three years. Kentucky could make itself more attractive as a potential location to nuclear companies, Leeper said. The state could encourage new investment and try to land new jobs…
…like to take a crack at building that next generation fast test reactor.” Reuse, restore, repair and repurpose Granting that Dr. Sattelberger is an advisor and not a representative of the Department of Energy, his response was still troubling. It was roughly equivalent to the response of a privileged teenager who says he wants mobility but then holds out for a dream car with options that haven’t been invented yet as a preferred path over fixing u…
…o revel in a “Limits to Growth” philosophy. Breeder reactors and plutonium reuse opens up the possibility of endless energy supplies that make it possible to overcome almost any material supply limitation. One plank in the anti-plutonium platform was the fear-inducing assertion that an ad hoc group of “terrorists” could use stolen reactor grade plutonium as the raw material for a nuclear weapon. A key part of the evidence used to support this asse…
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