The Anonymous Widower

Nuclear Waste

I have been over several nuclear power stations and on the whole they weren’t a chilling experience, where you felt that any minute, you’d be engulfed in some radiation-related explosion.  At only one did I feel a bit uneasy and that was because the site was untidy and cramped.  It just didn’t have the aura of being well-run that I got from say Sizewell A or AEP Cook.  But I visited this plant twenty years ago and it has operated safely since.

But when I saw an article entitled, Areva plans new reactors that make nuclear waste disappear, in The Times on Monday, I was initially sceptical.

But it does look that it may be the solution to the problem of nuclear waste.  I hope so!

What puzzles me about the story is that the technology was first proposed in the 1950s.  If it is that good, why hasn’t it been developed earlier.

March 24, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | Design, News | Energy, Nuclear Power, Technology