Re: [Amc-list] Water Powered Engine now slightly OT, now even more off-topic.....

[Glen Hoag <hoag@xxxxxx>]

The French reprocess spent fuel.  A joint venture of The Shaw Group 
and Areva are currently building a mixed-oxide fuel fabrication plant 
at the DOE's Savannah River Site in SC.  It will use surplus weapons 
grade plutonium as a feedstock in creating fuel for commercial 
reactors.  This is the same technology that is used in France to 
reprocess their spent fuel.

http://www.areva.com/servlet/cp_23_05_2008-c-PressRelease-cid-1211190647637-en.html

--Glen

At 12:50 PM 6/13/2008, Mark Price wrote:

>As for waste, I read recently that is another one of our gov'ments F'ups
>They decided that waste could not be re-refined to capture the 
>leftover uranium and other goodies as that could be used to make 
>bombs. So they banned it, I believe this is some international pact.
> From what I read recently a large amount of the "waste" can be 
> recycled, greatly reducing the quantity of waste, but we aren't 
> allowed. To top it off, if we refined it we could draw in the 
> leftover wast from other countries that are re-refining it to make 
> bomb grade goodies.
>    Seems silly, not allowed to refine radioctive waste because it 
> can make bombs or whatever.
>gee it could be used for that purpose the first time around too, couldn't it?

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