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Disposing Of Nuclear Waste As Nuclear Fuel

Posted by timothy on from the nice-circular-ring-to-it dept.

Saige writes "Nuclear waste has been a contentious issue, recently culminating with fights in the government over Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a proposed storage site. Well, perhaps there's a better way to deal with nuclear waste -by using it in nuclear reactors. A nuclear scientist at the University of Maryland, has come up with CAESAR, a reactor that runs not on the standard U-235, but on U-238. U-238 makes up most of the fuel rods in current reactors, but doesn't contribute to the reaction, and ends up currently as waste." The Yahoo! story linked from this article doesn't seem to open, but here's a story at The Economist.

2 of 76 comments (clear)

  1. Sorry for the pun by moc.tfosorcimgllib · · Score: 2, Funny

    If they are going to use Radioactive waste as an energy source, more power to them.

  2. Seems like a lot of trouble by robert0122 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Couldn't we just compost the nuclear waste? ;-)