Posted on 12/07/2016 7:58:43 AM PST by ameribbean expat
The facility will be built at the Energy Department's 890-square-mile site that includes the Idaho National Laboratory, considered the nation's primary lab for nuclear research.
(Excerpt) Read more at navytimes.com ...
But we’ve always processed and kept or expended cores in Idaho. The Expended Core Facility is all that is left of the Naval Reactors Facility where we trained nuclear plant operators for decades.
“kept or expended” should be “kept our expended”
Sounds like another boon-doggle. What port on what ocean borders the state of Idaho ?
A port is not in any way needed. A container sized package of spent nuclear fuel can be shipped anywhere, and this is already a site of nuclear research and storage.
Why not put it in Nevada with all the other nuclear waste?
Put it all under a humongous pot of water.
Almost all energy can be accomplished using boiling water, not the least of which is electricity.
Of COURSE that idea is impossibly simplistic ... but the idea is not impossible
Just dump them in the Arctic Ocean like The Soviet Union used to do.
Why not reopen Yucca Mountain in Nevada?
IIRC, the facility was almost finished when Dingy Harry got it shut down. He’ll be gone in January, and President Trump should look into finishing the project and using it!
The Yucca mountain facility was never finished. Rumors are it might be restarted after Trump takes office.
Nevada is now blue. F-— them. Build it.
Isn't that how nuclear power plants generate electricity? The nuclear reaction provides the heat, and steam pressure turns the wheels on the generators. It's a nuclear steam engine.
Yucca Mtn is not and probably never will be operational.
#8 I bet they still do : )
Usually still in the sub with all the sailors onboard....
Sure, just dump all the nuclear garbage out west! That’s all we’re here for. Pillage all our natural resources, send in government thugs to steal our land when they want it, murder the ranchers and farmers who’ve worked hard to make a living on it, and dispose of your poisonous shit in our backyards. Bastards!
Since Nevada has went D the last 3 presidential elections, it sounds like a good idea.
Beats me why it needs to cost 1.6 billion. As others say, nuclear waste volume is small, and we already have places to store nuclear waste.
Furthermore, I think the amount of nuclear waste for all nuclear ships is less that that for one nuclear power plant.
The "glass" idea turns out to be a bad approach. At the atomic level, the hot radioactive particles act like a sandblaster. The glass is pulverized to a talcum powder granularity that is easy to wash out in the water compromised salt caverns.
The WIPP compromise has resulted in a cessation of transport of waste material to WIPP. It is now being stacked up above ground in Idaho where the glass is breaking down. We don't need more trasnported into Idaho because none of it is going back out after transport.
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