Re: How Do the Europeans Get Rid of Nuclear Waste?

"W. Watson" wrote:
>
> Uncle Al wrote:
> > "W. Watson" wrote:
> >
> >>France, England and some other European countires use nuclear power plants to
> >>provide electrical power. How do they get rid of their waste? I believe Japan
> >>and soon China may have the same problem. What's their solution?
> >
> >
> > They listen to scientists then engineers, not to Enviro-whiners.
> >
> How about the U.S. storing it in the holes of Nevada where decades of testing
> took place?

UNKNOWN HAZARDS!

How about getting a clean beta-decay stream and handling that. The
slightly beta-decay dirty actinides go back into the reactor as fuel.
That gives you a small volume short half-life beta-decay waste stream
plus recycled fuel folks won't be eager to steal.

Current fuel recycling is military and exactly stupid: A small clean
actinide stream for bombs and a huge beta-decay plus actinide stream
that is not recovered for fuel and must be stored forever until it
decays.

All ya gotta do is get out the fission poisons - and they are all
neutron-rich short half-life beta-decay isotopes. Everything else can
go back into the cooker.



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