RE: I love high-level nuclear waste and want some in my yard

[Tim <tstead@ntirs.org>]

I was not necessarily talking about

on-site/transportation casks because (among other

things) welded on-site casks would make it difficult,

for say the IAEA, to verify that the fuel inside is

actually spent and not fresh fuel...



I was referring to the casks that would store the

fuel.  As I understood it, the fuel would be

transferred from the shipping containers to the

storage containers at Yucca where it would be placed

in a MRS configuration.  I just don't know why we want

to make it "easy" to be retrieved since President

Carter pretty much killed any hopes that re-processing

ever had for this country.



Tim Steadham



--- BERNARD L COHEN <blc+@pitt.edu> wrote:

> > P.S. Since re-processing in the USA is all but

> dead,

> > why not seal the casks permanently (e.g. weld the

> lid

> > shut - a good friction weld should work)?  Any

> > thoughts on the issue?

> 

> 	--1. These shipping casks cost a few million

> dollars, so that

> would be very expensive

> 	  2. The design of a cask to resist a powerful

> collision is very

> different than the design for standing up against

> corrosive chemical

> attack for thousands of years

> 





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