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Alvin Weinberg’s liquid fuel reactors

February 6, 2014 By Guest Author

Figure 6. Senators John Kennedy and Al Gore Sr flank Alvin Weinberg on a visit to ORNL

…n the single or double digit billions, we will need to find ways to really reuse and recycle our stuff. Cheap energy is an absolute necessity for that, but not alone. I can imagine a situation where cheap energy makes mining and discarding cheaper than using that same amount of energy for recycling. So we need well thought-out ideas about how to use energy so it will be part of a circular economy, not bring us farther way from it. Eino Good – The…

Filed Under: Atomic history, Atomic Pioneers, Atomic politics, Climate change, Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy, Guest Columns, Liquid Fuel Reactors, Nuclear Fuel Cycle

The Atomic Show #003 – Nuclear fuel recycling

March 11, 2006 By Rod Adams

Chris Puckett The idea of a nuclear based economy ie, reuse, recycle is a great one but everything involved with nukes becomes contaminated and so waste is a reality. until a viable way of disposing of existing waste is realized the public will continue work against the nuclear industry and as long as votes can be gained this way politicians will arise to stifle progress. The yucca mountain project is the best example, although carbon monoxide po…

Filed Under: Fuel Recycling, Podcast

Russia continues sustained fast breeder reactor effort

June 30, 2014 By Rod Adams

…s to Congress as “spent” fuel burners that will (eventually) significantly reduce the amount of actual long-term civilian power waste. But its something that will require Congressional action 😮 GEH has similar proposal before Her Majesty’s Government, where it is under review. But Britain is a very different case: as part of the international non-proliferation program, they have taken upon themselves the task of reprocessing the world’s spent…

Filed Under: Breeder Reactors, Fuel Recycling, International nuclear, Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors, New Nuclear

Virginia Uranium – Waiting Patiently to Create 325 Family Wage Jobs In Southside

June 10, 2012 By Rod Adams

Chatham Visitor Center

…nuclear energy as it would show the public that it is possible to recycle/reuse the “waste”. DV82XL Production from mines in Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia can ramp up faster than you seem to think and it will be a while before demand will outstrip the capacity of these countries to supply. Companies like Cameco and Rio Tinto have been sucking rocks since the Megaton for Megawatt program cratered the market and they to will be looking to recov…

Filed Under: Politics of Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Communications, Uranium mining

Trump Budget Blueprint For DOE Will Revive Yucca Conflict. Does Little To Enable Nuclear

March 27, 2017 By Rod Adams

Short section of 5 mile long access tunnel at idle and far-from-complete Yucca Mountain site.

…round in an engineered canister forever, until we get our act together and reuse it. Engineer-Poet I’m digging through that page a bit at a time, and so far as I’ve gone it’s about using a LFTR as a thermal actinide burner with a separate thorium breeding blanket to make seed U-233; basically, getting rid of the long-lived LWR waste problem and simultaneously starting LFTRs. Nothing under said program would prevent the use of high-enrichment urani…

Filed Under: Atomic politics, Nuclear Waste

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