[ RadSafe ] CNN poll

[Forbes, John]

Please support spent nuclear fuel reprocessing + the construction of
PBMRs instead of the AP-1000.
www.pbmr.com
And to support these great ideas, write and send emails to your state
representatives since emails b/n us nukes & HPs will not be as
productive as emails to those who decide which ideas get funded by our
tax dollars.
Thanks and have a great week and come visit Vegas with the use of your
'disposable' cash, not the cash you are saving for your kids' college
fund (LOL),
John


-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf Of garyi at trinityphysics.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 2:22 PM
To: radsafelist Radsafe
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] CNN poll

I am ignorant of what made it a lost cause.  Can you provide background?
Also, I'ld be more 
inclined to share your hope if there had been even a hint of possibly
maybe someday 
reprocessing.  

-Gary

On 23 Feb 2010 at 13:47, Brennan, Mike  (DOH) wrote:

Yucca Mountain was a lost cause; trying to force the issue would have
consumed time and effort and probably not gotten anywhere.  I hope that
part of the reason the President chose not to go down that path is that
someone pointed out that as a spent fuel disposal site, Yucca Mountain
was based on a false premise; that spent fuel should be disposed of.  

Spent fuel can be stored in cooling pools until it decays down to the
point where it can't damage itself, then it can be moved to dry cask
storage.  Under any reasonable scenario it can stay there until someone
wants to recycle it into more fuel (and no, I don't accept civilization
collapsing to the point where no one understands the signs, and the last
man and woman wrap themselves around a cask for warmth, all within the
next 50 years).  

"No nuclear waste" is not going to happen, but waste has never been the
technological sticking point with nuclear power.

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