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Thanks, Starvid.  How did the French manage to decommission theirs so fast? What's the difference in the waste other than the amount of it?

I hope you do pick up your series again, I'll look forward to reading!

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 07:06:41 AM EST
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I can't say how the French did it faster, though most likely I guess the British 100 year number is just plain wrong.

The problem with decomissioning the gas reactors is that the moderators are big graphite blocks, the same things that cut the lifetimes of the plants as they crack due to irradiation. Much nicer in LWR's where the moderator is water, which can't become radioactive (any radioactive particles are captured in filters which are then treated as intermediate level waste, 500 year storage in cave).

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue Jul 10th, 2007 at 07:16:11 AM EST
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