I am doing a poster presentation at the W.M. Post Symposium in February and I was wondering if anybody could tell me some good websites I could find some good information on the economics of spent fuel reprocessing. My presentation is over the Economic Feasibility of Spent Fuel Reprocessing vs. Direct Geologic Disposal.
How much research did you do prior to this post? As soon as I put "Economic Feasibility of Spent Fuel Reprocessing" into Yahoo I got numerous good pages, including:
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/science/hsy22295.000/hsy22295_0.htm (http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/science/hsy22295.000/hsy22295_0.htm)
I have done quite a bit of research. Most of my research has come from the IAEA due to the fact we do not reprocess here in the U.S. at this time. I am trying to find more information on the subject and I appreciate the websites so far. Thank You so very much!
Quote from: bittnerb1 on Dec 13, 2010, 05:53
I am doing a poster presentation at the W.M. Post Symposium in February and I was wondering if anybody could tell me some good websites I could find some good information on the economics of spent fuel reprocessing. My presentation is over the Economic Feasibility of Spent Fuel Reprocessing vs. Direct Geologic Disposal.
You should come by the NukeWorker booth and say hi.
I will do that. I can"t wait to go and represent my school and my technology.
The reason we don't reprocess in the United States has nothing to do with economic reasons; economically it makes perfect sense with natural uranium being .725 U-235 and commercial operations at 3-5% enrichment. The reason we don't reprocess here is politically and socially influenced. The military does reprocess because they use a fairly high enrichment. TRIGA test and research reactors use 19.5% enriched fuel, which is re-processed, but General Atomics sold the TRIGA program to AREVA so fuel is shipped to France for reprocessing after use.