Nuclear Trash

["D. Kosloff" <dkosloff@ncweb.com>]

One little nit.  Some of the early plants had contracts with their fuel
suppliers that required the suppliers to take the slightly spent fuel back
after it was poisoned with fission fragments.  So some fuel was actually
moved to other locations.  The Monticello plant is one example, I think
there slightly used fuel was taken by train to Morris Il.  Since it can be
recycled, the fuel is not really trash.  Every Monday I put out the
recycling in one container and I put out the trash in other containers.

Also, low level waste (includeing steam generators and plant decommissioning
residue) is trash for the most part and is "put out" to the low level waste
storage facilities.  Nothing like fly ash or slag, but trash nevertheless.

Don Kosloff dkosloff@ncweb
2910 Main St Perry OH 44081

----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Flood <bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: RADSAFE digest 3135


> >The only part of your note I want to dispute right now is "we don't put
out
> any trash". I would
> >suggest that the nuke waste the gov't is trying to bury under yucca
> mountain would fall under the catagory of "trash".
>
> He didn't say the industry doesn't create any trash - the "we don't put
out
> any trash" statement is quite correct. The waste you speak of is still
> stored at each of the facilities where it was generated - this trash
hasn't
> been "put out" anywhere.
>
> If the squabbling over the extraordinary protections designed into
radwaste
> storage are ever ended (and they will, eventually), THEN you can say that
> the nuclear power industry is putting out its trash.
> ============================
> Bob Flood
> Dosimetry Group Leader
> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> bflood@slac.stanford.edu
>
>
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