Re: Yucca Mtn.- Where did we go wrong?

["Fritz Strydom" <FStrydom@NACINTL.COM>]

Jerry,



I agree that ocean disposal would be a safe way to permanently dispose of 

spent fuel.  The problem I have with it is that you are wasting a precious 

energy source by permanently disposing of "spent" fuel.  I see no suitable 

alternative besides temporary centralized storage.  We have wasted 

billions of dollars trying to find a way to permanently dispose of high 

level waste. Why?  When did it become a necessity that we have to 

permanently dispose of the waste?  Why can't we just safely store it?  The 

volume required to store all of the U.S. spent fuel is something of the 

size of a football field, 15 feet deep.  We have years of experience using 

both wet and dry storage.  Twenty years form now, we may be desperate for 

the resources contained in so-called "spent" fuel:  radioisotopes that can 

be used for medical purposes, uranium and plutonium that can be used for 

energy production, etc.



We have the technology to safely store spent fuel for many decades to 

come.  Let's spend our research dollars investigating options such as 

transmutation and reprocessing/separation.



Fritz Strydom



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