Ron Johnson wrote:
If only Canada had a nice place to dump spent nuclear fuel the way ChinaFrance doesn't have problems with spent nuclear fuel, because they use breeder reactors. We should, too.
The problems with waste are slowly being solved, even without breeders. But you make a good point. However, I would prefer it if the breeders were in the arid Southwest deserts, and not at Hanford.*
Mark Allums* Actually, we aren't operating /any/ breeders at the moment, nor have since the eighties, IIRC. We aren't even producing any plutonium right now, we prefer to buy it from the Russians (which is okay with me, I guess. Better in our power plants than in their nuclear weapons, I say.)