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To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (395905)	4/21/2003 6:13:07 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Breeders are, of course, incrementally more efficient and cost effective... but presently fuel is only a very small part of the cost structure for power generators. The - much larger - mass of the reactor itself, and much of the containment structure, still becomes extremely radioactive through irradiation... and must be disposed of. This is a much larger part of the cost structure (but will be expensed to the taxpayers, not the utility operators, as another subsidy). Fusion reactors, however, offer the potential of much less residual radioactivity to be disposed of, at end-of-life, and much more favorable economics with the fuel.