RE: DOE plans to "burn-up" nuclear waste

["Bradshaw, Keith" <Keith.Bradshaw@nnc.co.uk>]

	<CUT>
> One expensive, yet attractive way of treating it would be to
> >transform much of it, using "accelerated transmutation of wastes," or
> ATW.
> >ATW could potentially take that amount of uranium, plutonium, americium,
> >neptunium and curium, and convert it into a small amount that needs
> >disposal.
	<CUT>

	Does this process give a net energy gain, or is it energy-requiring?

	keith.bradshaw@nnc.co.uk









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