Posted by William P. N. Smith on May 17, 2005, 8:51 am
>I was thinking
>of somthing more along the lines of a power station.
Well, clearly the nuke waste doesn't work in traditional nuke plants,
so you'd need a special plant (like a breeder?) that would 'burn' nuke
waste, but that's a whole nother rathole.
The use of microporous silicon to trap beta particles in high-level
nuke waste isn't feasable. The 'beta battery' is a very specialized
(and very low-power) device with a lifetime measured in decades.
Posted by Gordon Reeder on May 17, 2005, 11:38 pm
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>>I was thinking
>>of somthing more along the lines of a power station.
>
> Well, clearly the nuke waste doesn't work in traditional nuke plants,
> so you'd need a special plant (like a breeder?) that would 'burn' nuke
> waste, but that's a whole nother rathole.
>
> The use of microporous silicon to trap beta particles in high-level
> nuke waste isn't feasable. The 'beta battery' is a very specialized
> (and very low-power) device with a lifetime measured in decades.
>
>
Yea, probably more to it than I realize. Althought nuke waste
doesn't have enought energy to work in a conventional reactor,
it does give off radiation. But as someone already pointed out
the battery works on alpha emissions while nuke waste is stronger
in beta and maybe gamma radiation.
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Just my $0.02 worth. Hope it helps
Gordon Reeder
greeder
at: myself.com
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Unity means let's try to meet each other halfway
Posted by Arnold Walker on May 18, 2005, 2:50 am
<William P. N. Smith> wrote in message
> >I was thinking
> >of somthing more along the lines of a power station.
> Well, clearly the nuke waste doesn't work in traditional nuke plants,
> so you'd need a special plant (like a breeder?) that would 'burn' nuke
> waste, but that's a whole nother rathole.
> The use of microporous silicon to trap beta particles in high-level
> nuke waste isn't feasable. The 'beta battery' is a very specialized
> (and very low-power) device with a lifetime measured in decades.
Transmutation of waste is more realistic.......possibly in "black box"
fashion like the Grumman nuke plane using Hf that is x-ray excited.
Or the Aggie (Texas A&M) boron reactor that is plasma excited for a fussion
reaction.
(Presently have an old two bay full service station for a lab and generates
20MW of electricity with the equipment
fitting the two bays.).
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>of somthing more along the lines of a power station.