dlzc wrote:
>> CBFalc>>>
>... snip ...
>>>
>>>> As for nuclear waste... best thing to do with it is to
>>>> reprocess most of it into new fuel, as they do in Europe and
>>>> as we used to do in the United States until Carter the Nukular
>>>> Engineer decided we shouldn't.
>>>
>>> So you object to someone with knowledge of the field declining
>>> to subject future generations to one more inherited and
>>> unanswerable problem?
>>
>> How did you get that from his response? He was promoting
>> reprocessing waste for its usuable constituents, rather than
>> burying it in a salt dome somewhere and hoping that Nature
>> leaves it there unscathed for sufficient time, even though the
>> containments we have developed don't last near long enough.
>>
>> That stuff represents money. It is stupid not to reprocess it.
>> since it is not much worse than the stuff the fuel was made
>> from originally.
>
>The point about the fission product radioactives are that they
>represent an extraction of energy from the original material. They
>are not subject to chemical treatment etc. So far I am totally
>unaware of any method of changing their isotopic content, without
>replacing the originally generated energy, plus wastage. See the
>chart of the nuclides, which is pretty basic.
>
>I strongly imagine that Jimmy Carter is well acquainted with these
>fundamental facts.
Perhaps imagine is the operative word here. Try some searches.