John H wrote:
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:34:01 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:18:05 -0400, John H
wrote:

A good article on nuclear waste disposal. The liberals continue to
pull the wool over the eyes of the masses, but maybe the word is
getting out. France has had the right idea for lots of years.

http://tinyurl.com/czv338
There is a pretty good article in the Scientific American "Energy"
supplement they just sent out about the new generation of "fast
neutron" reactors that can use reprocessed fuel rods from the
pyrometallturgical method (another new idea) That reprocesses fuel at
high temperatures without coming up with a bunch of plutonium. That
seems to be the main flaw in the current reprocessing systems.
They need the new reactor to use it tho. The waste from that reactor
has a short half life, still dangerous for a century or so but not
tens of thousands of years like the current stuff. There is also less
of it.

If this is it, never mind my last.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=...-breeder-react

Thanks anyway.
--
John H

For a great time, go here first... http://tinyurl.com/d3vxvm
I suspect that since this is a recent article the technology has
changed, but breeder reactors have been around since the 1970 when
conventional reactors were "outlawed" by restrictive federal regulations.

There is another new idea for the use of nuclear energy for the
generation of electricity. The units are about the size of a large RV.
The unit would would provide power to a community for many years and
then be taken back to the factory and reworked. This is one article I
did not save, so don't remember the exact statistics.