Scott Peterson, VP of Communications for Nuclear Energy Institute, Discusses Used Fuel Commission
Scott Peterson, the Vice President of Communications for the Nuclear Energy Institute visited with Clean Skies News to talk about his organization’s reactions to the formation of the blue ribbon commission on used nuclear fuel policy.
It is heartening to hear an industry spokesman so clearly stating that the industry has accepted the responsibility for storing used fuel for a very long time, that it supports intelligently recycling that material to capture the 95% of the potential energy that remains after one trip through a reactor, that uncertainly about the exact long term used fuel plan was not going to slow down new nuclear plant construction and that there are already plants under construction in Georgia and South Carolina. (I would bet that some of you did not know that construction was already underway here in the United States.)
Another potential application for spent fuel: much needed medical isotopes.
I would be grateful to know if there will be any mechanism for citizens to provide input to the Blue Ribbon Commission?
Will there be any opportunity for public comment or to submit academic papers or evidence for the viability of technologies to reduce the volume and radio-toxicity of high level nuclear wastes?
Rod – Don’t forget that there is also a plant under construction in Tennessee too.
Nuclear tea parties? 😉