Spent Nuclear Fuel Slides

Figure 1. Dutch High Level Waste Vault

A slide deck on Spent Nuclear Fuel has been uploaded to the Flop book site. It can be downloaded from here. Ideally, the audience should have already seen the Radiation Damage and Repair presentation. This file contains a set of presenter notes. If you are actually going to make this presentation, you will need to contact me for a slides-only file.

The nuclear establishment never fails to disappoint. When it comes to spent nuclear fuel, the stupidest thing we can do is argue for deep geologic disposal. This is trebly idiotic.

1) It puts already mined, valuable material in a place whence it is difficult to impossible to recover.

2) It is a horrendous waste of resources. By making nuclear more expensive, we guarantee there will be less nuclear. Less nuclear means more fossil, more pollution, and more CO2.

3) It convinces everybody that aged spent fuel is uniquely dangerous. Why else would you spend billions of our money in this manner? In fact, 600 year old spent fuel is just another poison. You must swallow this cement for it to harm you.

Bacon is more dangerous. You are much more likely to eat that carcinogen.

This set of slides outlines a plan for handling spent nuclear fuel which makes sense. The nuclear establishment will reject it, because they are far more interested in extracting taxpayer money, than they are in providing cheap, pollution free, low CO2 electricity. This is criminal selfishness.