Future of America's Nuclear Power Plants

[PamW]

9. Answers...

All that is needed for the scheme I outlined is to have a reprocessing plant.

The French have a reprocessing plant at LaHague. That plant also reprocesses fuel for Sweden, and anyone else that contracts for services.

The British have a reprocessing plant at Sellafield.

The Japanese used to have the French reprocess their fuel; until they built their own reprocessing plants at Rokkasho.

The USA has a reprocessing plant at the Savannah River National Lab in South Carolina. We don't use it for commercial fuel.

The scheme I outlined above is being done in countries other than the USA.

The part of my scheme where you need to refuel the reactor with 4 tons of fuel in which you use the Plutonium from the spent
fuel and you mix it with some new Uranium to make the new fuel. Do you know what they call that mixture?

It's called MOX. You know that MOX is being used in other countries, right?

The only thing that sours financiers is the uncertainty. If we can get rid of the uncertainty of the politics, they'd love it.

PamW