tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post1302298568914383362..comments2024-03-07T02:00:01.582-05:00Comments on NEI Nuclear Notes: Nobody Trips Over a MountainUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-26805040185900380352009-03-05T01:37:00.000-05:002009-03-05T01:37:00.000-05:00The Obama administration has made a commitment to ...The Obama administration has made a commitment to review U.S. nuclear waste policy. It no longer makes any sense to rush to stick a large amount of spent fuel into Yucca Mountain, so there is no real technical impact from stopping the work toward construction of the site, while the licensing effort to provide independent NRC review of Yucca Mountain's suitability continues (although there is a rapidly growing taxpayer liability).<BR/><BR/>I really hope that this policy review ends up being successful in identifying a solution that can gain sufficient votes from the representatives of the 39 states that now host temporary storage of spent fuel and high level waste. Such a solution likely does exist, and fixing the Nuclear Waste Policy Act would be a major accomplishment.<BR/><BR/>If this effort fails, then our default policy is already well known. The default policy is written in the current statute--construct Yucca Mountain and stuff it full of spent fuel as quickly as possible. Hopefully we can do better than this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-33012651079231757152009-03-04T18:40:00.000-05:002009-03-04T18:40:00.000-05:00The Federal government has already received billio...The Federal government has already received billions of dollars from regional utilities that operate commercial nuclear power facilities for the disposal of spent fuel. <BR/><BR/>The Federal government needs to utilize this money to set up Federal Nuplexes in every spent fuel producing State to serve as central repositories and reprocessing centers for spent fuel. <BR/><BR/>Additionally, Federal Nuplexes should utilize the reprocessed fuel through on site nuclear reactors at each Nuplex for the production of base-load electricity, industrial chemicals, and hydrocarbon synfuels for transportation and clean carbon neutral peak-load energy production. <BR/><BR/>Marcel F. Williams<BR/>The Nuplex Solution<BR/>http://newpapyrusmagazine.blogspot.com/1999/02/nuplex-solution.htmlMarcel F. Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16245086958213100840noreply@blogger.com