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Glenn Williams
U.S. Spent Nuclear Fuel -- Hello India?
3/30/2010 1:03 PM EDT
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Were you wondering what the federal government plans to do with nuclear waste now it has closed Yucca Mountain? A hint is found from the U.S. State Department, March 29, 2010, in a release entitled "U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation - Reprocessing Arrangement."
Here is what it says: "The United States and India have taken an important step toward implementing civil nuclear cooperation by completing negotiations on 'arrangements and procedures' for reprocessing U.S.-origin spent nuclear fuel. These arrangements, negotiated pursuant to Article 6(iii) of the historic Agreement for Cooperation between the Government of India and the Government of the United States of America concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, will enable Indian reprocessing of U.S.-obligated nuclear material under IAEA safeguards. Completion of these arrangements will facilitate participation by U.S. firms in India's rapidly expanding civil nuclear energy sector." |
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Article in Fusion Engineering and Design discusses the development of a new combo fission/fusion reactor that will eliminate 99% of the toxic waste from the fission process:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14081
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One of the hybrid reactors would be capable of burning the sludge waste of 10 to 15 LWRs, rendering it non-radioactive. The new design would cut 99 percent of the waste produced by reactors, making them less radioactive than coal plants, which also emit some mildly radioactive isotopes.
Professor Mahajan says the new design should be ready for deployment in just a few years, around the time when the first applications for new nuclear plants in the U.S. may go through. He says the reactor marks the best way to fight global warming. He states, "The hybrid we designed should be viewed as a bridge technology. Through the hybrid, we can bring fusion via neutrons to the service of the energy sector today. We can hopefully make a major contribution to the carbon-free mix dictated by the 2050 time scale set by global warming scientists." |
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Looks like that filing is all about the permit.
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