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  • An alternative nuclear-energy solution ( Design addresses Nuclear waste as fuel )

    09/25/2008 11:26:42 AM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 24 replies · 383+ views
    Long Beach Press-Telegram ^ | 09/24/2008 06:59:45 PM PDT | Thomas D. Elias
    here may be a workable way to solve most of America's energy problems, end dependence on foreign oil and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions with little pain. Remarkably, while proposals for renewed offshore oil drilling, new atomic power plants, expanded carbon trading and other proposed tactics abound in this year's presidential campaign, no one mentions the single most promising technique.This may be because its name contains the word "reactor." Combined with the fact that it depends on a sophisticated form of nuclear technology, that appears to make the notion of power plants using the Integral Fast Reactor anathema to today's...