And they're so worried about pollution, but refuse to even consider nuclear power plants, which could supply plenty of energy very cheaply and cleanly, if they would stop suing the snot of them for bogus reasons.
Like they don't realize we have Submarines and Aircraft Carriers that run on this technology with almost a perfect track record. I'm not crazy about our current disposal program but that is because of the military industrial complex building our infrastructure around weapons instead of energy.
Is it true that there's a way to recycle a lot of the waste with a different type of convertor or plant? I'm not a nuclear scientist, obviously. Someone said once there was a way, but I can't remember what the reason was that we don't use it here.
Thorium Salt Reactor was researched to handle this but something about it's viability or something was brought up after it became viral on YouTube. We won't mine Thorium because of it's EPA restrictions but if we did we could also mine our Lithium Deposits because it's all part of our rare earth makeup. I'm a dumbass former Grunt who welds now so take all of this with a grain of salt knowing I have no formal education on the matter 🤷♂️🤣
Oh, rare earth stuff. Yes, we'd better leave that to the Chinese, who are known for their earth-friendly processes!
I had it mixed up, I thought there was something that was done in other countries already, but they wouldn't allow here for some reason. Thanks for explaining!
Commercial reactor spent fuel could be reprocessed to extract the Plutonium from it. Spent fuel rods typically contain more fissile material than natural Uranium.
It was a Carter era decision to stop all efforts towards Plutonium reprocessing in the US. There is no longer any commercial infrastructure for reprocessing in the US.
As a side note, it is a federal requirement that a spent fuel repository allow for retrieval of the spent fuel.
Thus leading to everyone who was next to that weapon system while cycling or the maintenance personnel breathing in the dust but hey that isn't dangerous at all🤦♂️.
Ok this is largely not true. The Atomic Energy Reorganization Act of 1953 separated the AEC into the DOE and NRC. The DOE had its own reactors at Savanah River and Hanford. DOE is responsible for spent fuel.
Civilian reactors with the exception of a couple of early test reactors are light water moderated designs. The reactor designs utilized in commercial power production are safer than designs optimized for Plutonium production.
And they're so worried about pollution, but refuse to even consider nuclear power plants, which could supply plenty of energy very cheaply and cleanly, if they would stop suing the snot of them for bogus reasons.
Like they don't realize we have Submarines and Aircraft Carriers that run on this technology with almost a perfect track record. I'm not crazy about our current disposal program but that is because of the military industrial complex building our infrastructure around weapons instead of energy.
Is it true that there's a way to recycle a lot of the waste with a different type of convertor or plant? I'm not a nuclear scientist, obviously. Someone said once there was a way, but I can't remember what the reason was that we don't use it here.
Thorium Salt Reactor was researched to handle this but something about it's viability or something was brought up after it became viral on YouTube. We won't mine Thorium because of it's EPA restrictions but if we did we could also mine our Lithium Deposits because it's all part of our rare earth makeup. I'm a dumbass former Grunt who welds now so take all of this with a grain of salt knowing I have no formal education on the matter 🤷♂️🤣
Oh, rare earth stuff. Yes, we'd better leave that to the Chinese, who are known for their earth-friendly processes!
I had it mixed up, I thought there was something that was done in other countries already, but they wouldn't allow here for some reason. Thanks for explaining!
Commercial reactor spent fuel could be reprocessed to extract the Plutonium from it. Spent fuel rods typically contain more fissile material than natural Uranium. It was a Carter era decision to stop all efforts towards Plutonium reprocessing in the US. There is no longer any commercial infrastructure for reprocessing in the US.
As a side note, it is a federal requirement that a spent fuel repository allow for retrieval of the spent fuel.
Our current disposal program is to start a war every few years which allows us to use up a bunch of depleted uranium rounds.
Thus leading to everyone who was next to that weapon system while cycling or the maintenance personnel breathing in the dust but hey that isn't dangerous at all🤦♂️.
Ok this is largely not true. The Atomic Energy Reorganization Act of 1953 separated the AEC into the DOE and NRC. The DOE had its own reactors at Savanah River and Hanford. DOE is responsible for spent fuel.
Civilian reactors with the exception of a couple of early test reactors are light water moderated designs. The reactor designs utilized in commercial power production are safer than designs optimized for Plutonium production.