[ RadSafe ] Spent reactor fuel

[franz.schoenhofer at chello.at]

Dear Joe,

Being a citizen óf a "classical capitalistic country......" you might know that any new technology will only be introduced if it provides a net profit!!! I doubt that the basic concept would be of any profit.  Such extreme concepts with RTG's pay well off, it a satellite cannot be connected with a long enough cable to the earth to receive enough energy for data transmission.. (I trust you understand my cynical comment!)

It is always a joy to exchange opinions with you!

Best wishes!

Franz


---- JPreisig at aol.com schrieb:
> Dear Franz,>  
>      Well, I'm glad to hear that someone had this idea  many years ago.  
> Yes, shielding and handling
> are clearly issues in doing what I have suggested.  Efficiency may be  a 
> concern.
>  
>      Technology innovations may allow today what could  not be done back 
> then.  A place like 
> Argonne National Lab or INEL could do a small-scale Spent Fuel/RTG  
> experiment.  One could 
> probably design some thermocouple quick-connect mechanism using magnets of  
> whatever to connect
> a thermocouple to spent fuel and/or the fuel cladding.  Maybe a robot  
> could be designed to make
> such a connection also (No dose to the humans involved in the  
> experiment)????
>  
>     Thanks for your radsafe post, Franz.  Go have a  beer????
>  
>     Thanks to Sergio and Roy Herren for their recent radsafe  posts.  Gamma 
> Knife technology
> is so very interesting.  Read about it on Wikipedia or on the  internet.
>  
>     Regards,     Joe Preisig
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> In a message dated 10/7/2012 10:32:22 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> franz.schoenhofer at chello.at writes:
> 
> Joe,
> As far as I rememer, this idea is not new - it was already  considerer when 
> I was a teenager (now I am 68). There must have  been  some "problems" with 
> shielding,  efficiency and handling - which are  interconnected...... 
> 
> You probably remembe the sad story, when  woodcutters discovered in Siberia 
> a Sr-90 generator and they sat on it,  because it was warm?
> 
> Proliferation would be a small  problem!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Franz
> 
> --- JPreisig at aol.com  schrieb:
> > Dear Radsafe,
> >  
> >       Howdy all.  I don't know how viable the  following idea is.  It  
> > certainly would make
> > anti-proliferation people  nervous.
> >  
> >      Take some of our (USA or  World???) spent nuclear  fuel, attach 
> > thermocouples to the spent  fuel
> > and produce localized DC electricity sources (like  RTG's???).   Wonder 
> what 
> > the total USA energy/power  
> > generated this way would be???
> >  
> >     Put solar cells on the roof of such energy/power  sources and  
> produce 
> > even more electricity???
> >  
> >     Regards,    Joe Preisig
> >  
> >  
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Franz Schoenhofer, PhD, MinRat
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Vienna
Austria
mobile: ++43 699 1706 1227