Re: McClueless Quote of the Day [from another place]
- From: Puppet_Sock <puppet_sock@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:06:12 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 9, 8:51 am, Robert Carnegie <rja.carne...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
(A special untaxed diesel is supplied for agricultural service. It is
identified by a dye. The police are kept busy finding little
factories set up to separate the fuel from the dye. Things being what
they are, it occurs to me that radioactive waste would be about as
useful for this...)
You will kindly keep your hands off my "radioactive waste."
The fact that it is active means there is energy available.
And by-and-by we may be wanting that.
Example: Spent fuel from a typical light water reactor is
something in the general ballpark of approxiamtely
90 percent U238. (How's that for an inaccurate statement?)
Depending on the fuel cycle it could be up to as much
as 95 percent U238. Maybe even a percent or two more.
U238 goes nicely in a breeder reactor. So something
over 90 percent of the available energy is still in there.
Other isotopes can be pretty useful as well, though at
this time they are usually produced by special purpose
reactors rather than being scavanged out of regular
reactor waste streams. But again, by-and-by we may
be wanting them.
So, generally speaking, we want to put the rad waste in
a place where it can be adequately stored for a century
or two. But so that we can get it back easily when we want.
Encased in glass blocks and piled in some out-of-the-way
place works fairly well.
Socks
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