General Atomics Proposes a Plant That Runs on Nuclear Waste
from WSJ.com: US Business
General Atomics will launch a 12-year program to develop a new kind of small, commercial nuclear reactor that could run on spent fuel from big reactors.
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It's an interesting idea. I think it may seem a little more wonderful than it actually is, though:
ReplyDelete1. It is not eliminating waste, it is just reducing the toxicity of the waste from one fatal level to a lower fatal level.
2. While it may reduce waste by lowering the toxicity, won't it also increase the volume of waste in gallons by adding more radioactive water and sludge from its own steam boiling operations?
The waste is highly toxic if it leaks and lowering the toxicity, while at the same time increasing the number of gallons of waste would not seem to be an effective solution.