…You don’t have bury used fuel, or watch it for thousands of years. You can reduce – use Generation III+ reactors, very fuel efficient – reuse – use spent fuel directly in a DUPIC cycle through a CANDU – and recycle – using advanced reprocessing systems – separating out the various waste components. The nasty stuff only has a short lifetime, probably could be reduced using accelerator driven systems powered by the extraordinary quantity of clean en…
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The Atomic Show #003 – Nuclear fuel recycling
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 p…
Russia continues sustained fast breeder reactor effort
…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…
Nuclear plant issues in Japan are the least of their worries
…wrong question. It may have been a fun project to work on, but why bother? Reduce, reuse, and recycle should be as encouraged for the byproducts of nuclear fission as for all other industrial by-products. Rod Adams @John Caves – I am not singing the Bobby Darrin ditty. The people inside the fences at the nuclear plants are doing all of the worrying and responding that is required. Everyone else should be worrying about far more important issues -…
The Atomic Show #153 – Suzy Hobbs Founder PopAtomic.org
…w small modular reactor technologies (reduce), relicensing of many plants (reuse), and down-blending weapons materials into spendable fuel (recycle)! Reese No, YOU’re an idiot. I mean, “You’re an idiot, sir.” Reese Umm, I regret I put it that way. I hold you in high esteem for many reasons. I just am accustomed to a better argument from you than that. I mean, “I just am accustomed to a better argument from you than that, sir.” Rod Adams Reese – th…
Virginia Uranium – Waiting Patiently to Create 325 Family Wage Jobs In Southside
…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…
Trump Budget Blueprint For DOE Will Revive Yucca Conflict. Does Little To Enable Nuclear
…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…
