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

["Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>]

Fritz,

    I  agree. I certainly do not advocate disposal of spent fuel in the

ocean - or by any other method. I would like to see the reprocessing

 of spent fuel, recovery of fissionable nuclides and any other

radioactive materials the may be useful, then disposal of the residual

high-level waste in the ocean.





----- Original Message -----

From: Fritz Strydom <FStrydom@NACINTL.COM>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 12:42 PM

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





> 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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