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RE: Massive is all relative.
By kattanna on 12/1/2010 12:23:43 PM , Rating: 2
waste management costs.

and it would not be nearly as much if the nuclear industry here was allowed to GASP.. *RECYCLE* its fuel like they do in france.

plus massive operating, security

All this thing does is sit there and a tech comes by if a motor gets jammed.

well, glad to see you can see past the fallacy of all those 1,000's of "green jobs" that will be created with renewables


RE: Massive is all relative.
By mcnabney on 12/1/2010 12:53:14 PM , Rating: 2
I guess you don't know anything about reactors.

Operating reactors (and even closed ones) store exhausted fuel onsite. We can reprocess it any time they want to. When a plant refuels the spent rods are just moved into an adjacent pool. The 'waste' doesn't add the costs until a reactor shuts down and storage costs must continue.

Now if we DID reprocess that fuel it would have to be transported, probably in a truck driven right down your street, to a specialized facility. Because there are 308 million NIMBYs in this country that is obviously never going to happen. At least blame the real cause of our refusal to reprocess spent fuel.

RE: Massive is all relative.
By Spivonious on 12/1/2010 1:11:14 PM , Rating: 5
They can drive it down my street if they want to. Just make sure the truck is properly shielded.

I would love to see the country move off of coal and onto nuclear.

RE: Massive is all relative.
Just make sure the truck is properly shielded.


RE: Massive is all relative.

RE: Massive is all relative.
Even Three Mile Island was overblown.


RE: Massive is all relative.
By kattanna on 12/1/2010 1:14:06 PM , Rating: 3

correct. and im still not seeing the issue. france has an awesome safety record of doing just that.


you mean politicians who have no backbone to stand up to a very vocal minority, over riding the majority? I do.

RE: Massive is all relative.
By namechamps on 12/1/2010 5:08:26 PM , Rating: 4

Fear monger much?

Here is a riddle for you. Nuclear plants rotate out roughly 1/3 of the core every 24 months. How does the fuel get TO the 133 nucelar reactors in operation around the country for the last 50 years?

Thats right on specialized trucks. Strangely they don't have to drive through residential areas Why? Oh yeah because both nuclear plants AND the fuel fabrication plants are both outside residential areas.

Every year trucks drive nuclear fuel from fabrication plants to nuclear reactors using highway system. Every year for 5 decades now. Rather routine and safe.

Now imagine you built the reprocessing plant at the same location as the fabrication plant. Truck brings new fuel to reactor, brings back spent fuel*. Closed loop. The same truck which is delivery new fuel will simply have cargo on the return trip.

* Now it isn't spent fuel straight from reactor. Fuel will spend two decades or so in a cooling pond until the vast majority of high radioactive material has burned off. So in essence truck is delivering new fuel and picking up fuel that was used 20 years ago. Still a closed loop though.

