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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: LoLoLoLita who wrote (21280)5/4/1998 3:15:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I remember reading something - it's pretty sketchy - that the most onerous waste fraction, say half lives from fifty to five thousand years, could be "parked" in a working reactor and "burned" by neutron activation. Do you have an opinion about this? I find the idea of taking long-lived and radiologically lively material and burying it in a form that needs to be "left alone" for thousands of years.
What we need is like a reverse volcano, so that we can dilute the waste into a magma reservoir. Where it is unrefinable by terrorists and can be allowed to decay at its leisure :-)

Refining spent fuel is a skilled, hazardous operation. How expensive is it when "done right" and without Federal subsidies? I imagine that all operating commercial plants would pay for a "subscription" to one big reprocessing plant. I figure economies of scale are operative.
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