Pretty good endorsement to have the founder of greenpeace say "I'd be happy to live in a nuclear reactor."
Any thoughts on the proposal of adapting France's reprocessing ideas? I also don't understand DOE's concern about the plutonium production, if the reprocessing facility is a secure site with the proper security procedures in place, any plutonium produced could be turned over to DOE for possession/stockpiling/security, right? The other thing I thought was interesting was in the description of the fuel reprocessing in France, it seemed that they described it as the fuel was taken from the reactor, placed in a dry cask, transported to the reprocessing facility, then stored in a pool for a number of years to decay. It was my understanding that fuel fresh from an operating reactor was quite hot, both activity-wise and thermally due to the decay products, too much so to transport by dry cask. Can anybody comment on this?
Quick off-topic question-- can anybody give me a quick explanation of the karma thing?
Also for those who missed it, two additional air times:
SAT 18OCT2008 0100 on CNBC
SUN 19OCT2008 2200 on CNBC