From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 11:53:05 MST
"Chuck Kuecker" <ckuecker@ckent.org>
> The proper way to dispose of high-level waste is to irradiate it inside
>the reactor vessel to promote it's decay to stable isotopes.
That seems to me to be enormously difficult, the spent fuel rods contain a
hodgepodge of different elements and isotopes and they would all have to
sorted out with expensive machinery, otherwise exposing them to a neutron
flux would just make things worse, and produce a lot of Plutonium too.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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