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RE: [cdn-nucl-l] Risk = hazard + outrage
Title: Re: [cdn-nucl-l] Risk = hazard + outrage
Jeremy wrote:
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I'd also add LIABILITY (have long-term effects been
considered, and who's paying for that?),
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That's interesting.
I'm currently participating in a discussion forum on
thorium reactors (specifically MSRs, with on-line waste processing, to produce
roughly one cubic meter of waste a year...).
People there are pretty vociferous about LIABILITY --
they claim that delegating SNF management to organizations other than nuke plant
operators is disingenuous, and that therefore thorium-MSR technology is
required, because it takes care of the waste management issue on site, with
orders-of-magnitude less "waste" (only the FPs) being sent to permanent waste
storage (for decay to background levels in just a few hundred
years....).
It seems like an attractive paradigm, but I guess that
in an age of cheap uranium, it doesn't sell very
well.
LIABILITY sure seems like a big issue with the public
-- are MSRs a solution ?
Jaro
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