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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill on the Hill who wrote (1657)	8/12/2005 12:40:27 PM
From: Triffin	Respond to of 24213

Here's a nifty technology .. RTGs .. en.wikipedia.org Maybe we can take some of our radioactive waste and utilize it in RTGs rather than store it in Yucca Mtn .. From ChampusRex on Peak Oil I've always wondered whether this would be a practical 'use' for high-level RA waste. Curretly the US has about 70,000 tonnes of spent civilian reactor fuel. If reprocessed this could yield about 65,000 tonnes of enriched uranium and about 5,000 tonnes of radioactive nasties, producing heat at the rate of up to about 1 W per g. With the primary half lifes of the constituents about 30 years, that's a lot of heat, for a long time. If concentrated in one place - that's as much heat as a couple of biggish reactors. The major difference is that there would be no need to refuel for perhaps 50 years or more. Practical? Maybe not - But it would be nice to see something useful come from this legacy Triff ..