Who Killed the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR)?

[Bob Wallace]

122. That "burning" thing...

Here's a bit of info from a National Geographic article on nuclear...

"A long deferred cleanup is now under way at 114 of the nation's nuclear facilities, which encompass an acreage equivalent to Rhode Island and Delaware combined. Many smaller sites, the easy ones, have been cleansed, but the big challenges remain. What's to be done with 52,000 tons (47,000 metric tons) of dangerously radioactive spent fuel from commercial and defense nuclear reactors? With 91 million gallons (345 million liters) of high-level waste left over from plutonium processing, scores of tons of plutonium, more than half a million tons of depleted uranium, millions of cubic feet of contaminated tools, metal scraps, clothing, oils, solvents, and other waste? And with some 265 million tons (240 million metric tons) of tailings from milling uranium ore—less than half stabilized—littering landscapes?"

We're going to "burn up" all that stuff?

How do you burn up 240 million metric tons of uranium tailings? Or millions of cubic feet of contaminated tools, metal scraps, clothing, oils, solvents, and other waste?


http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0207/feature1/