Comments on: Nuclear energy http://votechili.com/2010/02/01/nuclear-energy/ Surya Yalamanchili for the Ohio 2nd District - 2010 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: raymillr http://votechili.com/2010/02/01/nuclear-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-26 raymillr Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:59:23 +0000 http://votechili.com/?p=347#comment-26 The real answer to spent nuclear fuel is actually reprocessing/recycling of spent uranium. Areva in France can take 100 pounds of spent uranium and reprocess it into 96 pounds of "new" reusable reactor fuel, 1 pound of plutonium which can be blended down into reactor fuel like the Atoms for Peace program and 3 pounds of waste that would be vitrified into stable solid glass for storage. This waste is not nearly as high level and obviously requires far less volume. The real answer to spent nuclear fuel is actually reprocessing/recycling of spent uranium. Areva in France can take 100 pounds of spent uranium and reprocess it into 96 pounds of “new” reusable reactor fuel, 1 pound of plutonium which can be blended down into reactor fuel like the Atoms for Peace program and 3 pounds of waste that would be vitrified into stable solid glass for storage. This waste is not nearly as high level and obviously requires far less volume.

]]> By: nancysullivan http://votechili.com/2010/02/01/nuclear-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-19 nancysullivan Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:45:27 +0000 http://votechili.com/?p=347#comment-19 I did a long research paper on the issues related to Pike County and nuclear installations. Suffice to say that the region is desperate for good jobs... Serious and createive work needs to be done to enable people to support themselves with dignity.<br><br>However, the Pike County site is geologically very compromised. Any spill or leak, like the one which just shut down Vermont Yankee, could leach through the rock into the aquifer which leads to the Scioto River and then into the Ohio. <br><br>Although the president speaks about the need for safe confinement, (for millions of years), of nuclear waste, so far there is NO solution to this problem. Yucca Mountain is now officially out and there is no other widely proposed solution. Right now expended fuel rods are all over the country- expended as fuel, but still highly radioactive.<br><br>We also need to take the good look at the implications of Peak Oil for all aspects of our current economy and society. I did a long research paper on the issues related to Pike County and nuclear installations. Suffice to say that the region is desperate for good jobs… Serious and createive work needs to be done to enable people to support themselves with dignity.

However, the Pike County site is geologically very compromised. Any spill or leak, like the one which just shut down Vermont Yankee, could leach through the rock into the aquifer which leads to the Scioto River and then into the Ohio.

Although the president speaks about the need for safe confinement, (for millions of years), of nuclear waste, so far there is NO solution to this problem. Yucca Mountain is now officially out and there is no other widely proposed solution. Right now expended fuel rods are all over the country- expended as fuel, but still highly radioactive.

We also need to take the good look at the implications of Peak Oil for all aspects of our current economy and society.

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