Reply To: Fusion Oil

[zapkitty]

KeithPickering wrote: In the first place, your link doesn’t discuss Fukushima cleanup at all, which is a separate issue from nuclear waste.

Er… the spent fuel pool atop Unit #4 is not a Fukushima cleanup issue?

Hopefully TEPCO will get away with trying to offload it manually but the fact is that if worst comes to worst then it could become an international contamination issue.

KeithPickering wrote: In the second place, there are a number of reactor designs than can use spent fuel for fossil-free energy. It’s only “waste” if we don’t use it.

So the first thing we need to do is build more fission reactors?

I’d suggest that… if the #4 pool survives offloading… that the first thing we do is ensure that all nuclear power plants and any offsite nuclear waste storage facilities de-crowd their remaining spent fuel pools immediately by dry-casking what they can and building new pools as they are needed.

A pool sitting directly over a reactor is not a good place to store spent fuel.