Originally Posted by thkoutsidthebox  Thats interesting....any more information? |
Not really, just that if we closed the loop for nuclear energy we could make a lot of electricity and produce a lot less waste. Seems rather wasteful to load a reactor up with 100 pounds of uranium, use 2 pounds and throw away the rest. Uranium like any natural resource is limited, we wouldn't pump a barrell of crude out of the ground use a gallon or two and throw the rest away now would we? Of course there are the political issues and nuclear proliferation problems to contend with as reprocessing and using fast breeder reactors are ideal for making weapons grade fissionable materials. See the link below for what a fast breeder reactor is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_breeder_reactor