[MarchonDC09122009]

What about the real issue of spent uranium fuel disposal safety?
Understandably, the public has a low risk appetite for nuclear power in light of the ongoing Fukushima Japan nuke power plant disaster.
Also, hasn’t it been established that nuclear power plants are very costly to operate over their 30 - 50 year life span?
Are their currently any breeder reactors in use to compare costs with traditional pressurized vessel fission reactors?

RE: “Combined with Generation IV reactors, energy problems and pollution solved at the same time.

Now all we need is the brains to agree on it...”

[rdcbn]

The problem of nuclear waste is primarily a man made problem - one man ,in fact

That man is Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter outlawed the reprocessing of nuclear waste, do the only way to deal with nuclear materials to bury them in some remote site

The rest of the world simply reprocesses nuclear materials

[jonrick46]

I wonder what kind of energy potential the element Thorium has in the long run?

[Talisker]

What about the real issue of spent uranium fuel disposal safety? Understandably, the public has a low risk appetite for nuclear power in light of the ongoing Fukushima Japan nuke power plant disaster. Also, hasn’t it been established that nuclear power plants are very costly to operate over their 30 - 50 year life span? Are their currently any breeder reactors in use to compare costs with traditional pressurized vessel fission reactors?

I specified Generation 4 reactors. Look them up.