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Originally Posted by [1ponders]
It would be interesting to see if Nuclear Fission power would become popular if the waste was treated in the same way that waste packaging is treated in some EU countries. The packaging is returned to the manufacture...via the supplier......yep its cut down a lot of packaging. But what if the manufacturer or in this case the SUPPLIER (eg. Australia) had to take back the waste from the product it supplies. Don't think it would be very popular with the general public then.
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They actually do that in France. They've had new generation of power plants for years, now branded "super phoenix", I believe they take some of the by products of conventional nuclear plants and use it as "fuel" for the new plants but the new by products are even worse. Millions of years half life instead of 10 of thousands. But who's keeping count after the first mill.
There's a big dump zone as well in Normandy called "la hague" and they bury all the waste in lead/concrete encasements deep underground. Japan, the US, France and other countries from pretty much all over the world ship all their stuff there. It's just stored deep underground until we know what to do with it.
On a brighter note there is a lot of research in South East of France mostly financed by Japan. They think that within 100 years we WILL have clean renewable and sustainable nuclear energy. It works on the paper. What they're doing now is create the technology to make it all work. A whole city/community is being buit in "cadarache". 100s of scientist, their families, kids, infrastructure, ammenities, etc... A little "geek" town
