They ARE banned in many countries.
The point is that without treatment it becomes more radioactive and more expensive still to deal with. Also note "should be ". = "up to".
So you can't just stash it away and forget it.
The MOX fuel consists only of a tiny percentage of plutonium.
So no bananas, then, no brazil nuts, and no coal - for openers. Is that what you are saying?
No people either. On average, we emit about 500 gamma rays every second.
Colin Bignell
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So, we need a LOT more nuclear power stations.
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Between 5 and 10 percent, which isn't "tiny".
Bloody hell Should I wrap up the missus in tin foil or sheet lead or something?
Hear hear.
in particular the bit about radiation dose received from naturally occurring potassium in the body.
That's more suitable for beta rays, you should try 6" of concrete ...
Quite obviously, LFTR designs which, afair, can be used to 'burn down' the long lived isotopes to shorter lived ones (half lives of days to years for the various fission products produced).
Saves me regurgitating all the benefits of this half century old nuclear power technology. The first paragraph nicely sums it up. Unlike the Cold War based legacy designs we're currently living with, essentially no high pressures on the nuclear side of the process (no need for a large and expensive high pressure containment vessel nor hydrogen explosion hazard - neatly eliminates Fukushima type accidents).
There are plenty of articles on the subject available on the internet (google or Bing using "LFTR") to provide further reading for anyone with the slightest interest or concerns over the future of nuclear power.
has a video of an interesting presentatiion on the subject by Kirk Sorenson
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Only if she enjoys that sort of thing.
-- Colin Bignell
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WHOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Several inches of it but that won't stop all the natural radiation just the man made stuff.
Apparently it is OK to sleep with one woman, but not with two.
Ionic fire alarms SFB.
Pity you never read it all.
So the present nuclear reactors are no good and now we must start again? Heh, Heh. So what do with the pile of nuclear waste we already have?
Define tiny.
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