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

[Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@lanl.gov>]

In theory, there would be a net energy gain.

At 12:01 PM 3/14/00 -0600, you wrote:
	<CUT>
>> >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?

Mike McNaughton
email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov
phone: (505)667-6130
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