If the technology works, they can reprocess all the stored fuel that is currently in Yucca Mountain and reprocess it to near nothing. That’s what makes Generation IV so vital for the nuclear industry.
“If the technology works, they can reprocess all the stored fuel that is currently in Yucca Mountain “
What fuel stored in Yucca Mountain? The Biden Administration has cancelled the project.
The plan was that when Yucca Mountain got stocked, a reprocessing facility would start up.
Reactor fuel rods are pulled when about 1/2 of the energy has been spent and then it’s up to the facility to store the fuel rod assemblies for eternity.
Imagine that every time your car got to 1/2 tank, you went and all the remaining fuel was pumped out, you were sold a full tank of new fuel and you had to pay to store what was pumped out for eternity.
We had a waste reprocessing facility that Carter shut down on day 1.
State run media and the democrats (redundant) would have you believe that Yucca Mountain was just a big hole excavated in the ground where bulldozers were just going to push waste into.
Actually plan was to bore holes in the floor of huge tunnels and each fuel assembly would be cased in stainless steel containers that would be labelled as to what it is and where it came from. It would be a bank of raw material for the reprocessing facility.
I could process all of the stored fuel in Yucca Mountain in my garage!