"JeffM" <jeffm_@email.com> wrote in message
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> ...and, as always,
> the elephant in the room never seems to get mentioned:
> When "depleted" nuclear fuel is removed from a reactor,
> only 1 percent of its energy has been extracted.
> That "spent" fuel now sits for decades
> within a half-mile of where it was used,
> "guarded" by lowest-bidder guys who sleep on the job.
Being 1957, they didn't know what to do with it. The hope was that, by the
80's or so, people would have decided on something. Funny how that worked
out.
Tim
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