Re: Nukes Re: GOP could block clunkers cash

pyotr filipivich <phamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:3pso7518g87h5t8hncl5oksg8p176be9pp@xxxxxxx:

I missed the Staff Meeting but the Minutes record that "HH&C"
<hot-ham-and-cheese@xxxxxxxxxxx> reported Elvis on Wed, 5 Aug 2009
17:11:50 -0700 (PDT) in misc.survivalism:

I'm not 100% sure that nuclear is the answer until they figure out
what to do with the waste, but part of that Trillion dollars
certainly could have been used to work on that part of the problem.

        First use of the "waste" is recycle the "spent" fuel rods.
 Fuel rods are not like other "fuel" sources - they don't burn up.
 Think of it as _like_ a battery.  After a while, the batter doesn't
work as well.  You could recycle the battery for constitute
elements, and make new batteries from them, save that the costs are
higher than the sale prices.  But fuel rods are expensive enough
that recovering and 'decontaminating' the remaining 98% of the fuel
is cost effective.

Recycle, reuse, reduce.  

Sounds very earthy, like a slogan in The Mother Earth News. Couple it
with a Rainbow and you'll have a winner.

You can always use the old American aphorism: "Use it up or wear
it out, Make do or do without!" The short form of it is to not throw
away partially used material. And Fuel Rods are not even half used up
when they're pulled from the reactors.
-
pyotr filipivich.
Just about the time you finally see light at the end of the tunnel,
you find out it's a Government Project to build more tunnel.


France is the proof it can be done,as they already are doing it.
Japan also managed to derive most of it's electric power from nuclear
plants.

the Obama energy plan is for US citizens to do without,by making energy
costs high.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net
.

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