Free To A Good Home: 75,000 Tons Of Nuclear Waste

[Ksheed]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2016/03/30/free-to-a-good-home-75000-tons-of-nuclear-waste/#64c1c7291d6d

[cedugger]

The author uses "75,000 Tons of Nuclear Waste", but only writes to 1,100 tons of it. Maybe there will be a follow on article for the other 73,900 tons of it!

[SloGlo]

The author uses "75,000 Tons of Nuclear Waste", but only writes to 1,100 tons of it. Maybe there will be a follow on article for the other 73,900 tons of it!

he does reference the 75k tons at 79 temporary sights on page too.

[Mounder]

I like the "consent" idea from DOE, but I'm sure Nevada consented right up until the first shipment was planned for Yucca.  Better get a rock-solid contract on the front side.

[GLW]

I like the "consent" idea from DOE, but I'm sure Nevada consented right up until the first shipment was planned for Yucca.  Better get a rock-solid contract on the front side.

nah, been tried; consent based, privately funded, garbage land not good for anything else and this current administration still got in the way and killed it,...

http://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/sltrib/politics/55513674-90/consortium-friday-license-nrc.html.csp

consent siting....those are the words,...

squashing Skull Valley...those are the actions,...

not happening, at least not for awhile longer,...

[OldHP]

I like the "consent" idea from DOE, but I'm sure Nevada consented right up until the first shipment was planned for Yucca.  Better get a rock-solid contract on the front side. 

NV consented until HR's backers pushed HR to be anti.  The locals wanted and still want Yucca.  But, LV reelected HR, and He backed the current POTUS only after getting a promise from him. 

[rlbinc]

Nevada Test Site area has no better use.
The term "waste" fails to recognize the energy content of the material.
With new (and some not so new) reactor concepts, this shifts magically from a liability to an asset.
With no reprocessing, spent PWR fuel was loaded into a CANDU reactor in the DUPIC experiment.
In my opinion, if I had a few acres of dry casks, I'd build my next reactor capable of utilizing the source.

[GLW]

Nevada Test Site area has no better use.
The term "waste" fails to recognize the energy content of the material.
With new (and some not so new) reactor concepts, this shifts magically from a liability to an asset.
With no reprocessing, spent PWR fuel was loaded into a CANDU reactor in the DUPIC experiment.
In my opinion, if I had a few acres of dry casks, I'd build my next reactor capable of utilizing the source.

well, there you go again, being all logical, demonstrating intelligently applied creativity and other nonesuch,...

[Marlin]

Nevada Test Site area has no better use.
The term "waste" fails to recognize the energy content of the material.
With new (and some not so new) reactor concepts, this shifts magically from a liability to an asset.
With no reprocessing, spent PWR fuel was loaded into a CANDU reactor in the DUPIC experiment.
In my opinion, if I had a few acres of dry casks, I'd build my next reactor capable of utilizing the source.

   I had not heard of the DUPIC experiment before, after a little searching it would appear that the reprocessing technology for the feed material came from Korea. MOX fuel is the only repossessing I am aware of in the US and that is not looking good. I like the idea of a pyroprocessing  but I am not sure that it would be economical for a single nuclear site. One of the reasons a reprosessing plant has not been built since Reagan rescinded Carters ban is cost.