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To: LoLoLoLita who wrote (21282)	5/4/1998 4:17:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Can MOX be used in an HTGR? (high pressure helium-cooled reactor, an inherently very safe design)

To: LoLoLoLita who wrote (21282)	5/4/1998 8:16:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

>In order to select an optimal approach to handling spent fuel, we need to look at the entire fuel cycle, from start to finish, and evaluate both the economic costs and environmental effects of any proposed strategy. When the question is looked at this way, I believe the reprocessing of commercial spent fuel and use of MOX reactors is the optimal solution. < I forgot to say - I agree with this assessment. I do have the layman's dread of radionuclides though. The volcano joke was just that. A "reverse volcano" would draw everything into the mantle, where it would reliably stay for a few million years. Even Pu-239 would go stone cold in that time. Has anyone seriously studied placing the high-level vitreous waste in/at a subduction zone? Too slow, probably, and the seawater can't help. Oh well. Just blue-skying...