On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:10:53 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote
(in article ):

Ian White wrote:

The cumulative amount of high-level waste produced by *any* fission
reactor system is almost exactly proportional to the cumulative amount
of heat energy that has been generated. There is no significant
difference between thermal reactors and fast reactors in this respect.

Why?
You seem to make claims like this with great confidence
but as far as I can see without the slightest evidence.

"Considerable experience with reprocessing in France however, has indicated
that a one way fuel cycle based on extracting and processing fresh supplies
of uranium and storing the spent fuel is more economical than reprocessing,
not the least because in the process of plutonium extraction, the volume of
high-level liquid radioactive waste increases about 17-fold."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor




Wikipedia is not exactly Encyclopaedia Brittanica....

No reference is given