Reasonable Electric Car

Urbane Guerrilla · 04-24-2008, 05:42 PM

Radionuclide pollution or contamination is a longterm bugaboo, but the nasties are in solid form -- concentrated at particular points and not spread through the biosphere. This is in a way easier to handle.

Reprocessing nuclear fuel recovers the one-third of uranium that hasn't been fissioned, and the plutonium that has been generated. Nowadays this is not done in the United States -- though Europe is -- because new-mined fuel is significantly cheaper. Strictly dollars and cents.

04-24-2008, 05:42 PM	#9
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Radionuclide pollution or contamination is a longterm bugaboo, but the nasties are in solid form -- concentrated at particular points and not spread through the biosphere. This is in a way easier to handle. Reprocessing nuclear fuel recovers the one-third of uranium that hasn't been fissioned, and the plutonium that has been generated. Nowadays this is not done in the United States -- though Europe is -- because new-mined fuel is significantly cheaper. Strictly dollars and cents. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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