" "See. Now there is a real newsworthy story for nuclear science. An actual patent by people with full disclosure."
Comments like the first about “disasters” the information was created for politicians and the naïve. It hardly qualifies as "newsworthy". It is more properlay classified as a subtle form of propaganda, since most will see all the detail and infer that there may someday be a little patch for dangerous and frightening nuclear power. If anyone could cite a single death or injury from the release of radioisotopes or radiation from a commercial reactor there might be a point.
The more honest justification for processing so-called waste products, but one which flies in the face of disinformation intended to secure our dependence upon foreign petroleum imports, would be to push the environmental and proven safety advantages of nuclear power, no CO2, not that the CO2 concern is justified, no ash, no sulfur, no bird mincing, no deaths or injuries from washing and repairing two hundred thousand heliostats at night for each solar array, which enormous size will always be required by the absolute limit of solar flux density. No injuries in sixty years from commercial reatprs (Chernobyl is a military, not commercial, reactor with no containment, and still killed fewer, 3 radiation deaths, ever, than its coal replacement, 200/year from respiratory disease in just one year).
The patent is the story to me. Most “journalists” can’t write past a 3rd grade level and few have the comprehension of a 3rd grader to actually understand the importance of the story without injecting their political bias.