In article , Larry Jaques says...

... electric/gas hybrid cars should
be put out by every mfgr by now,

Interestingly the difference in mileage between one
of the new hybrids, and a civic with a few minor tweaks,
is pretty darn small. The hybrid is around 50, the
civic I think about 45 or so.

The problem is not building fuel efficient cars.
It's convincing consumers to buy them.

Nuclear waste disposal is a high-level ongoing problem.

Only in the minds of those who already oppose nuclear power anyway.
If you took all the high level waste from every commercial nuclear reactor
since the beginning of the nuclear age and piled it up 3 feet deep, it
would barely cover one football field. Of course that would be a silly
thing to do, since reprocessing it will turn it into more fuel, but it gives

What percentage/type of nuclear waste can be/is reprocessed?

Hee hee, you would not have asked that question unless you knew
the answer, which if course is:

All spent reactor fuel (with some very small experimental exceptions)
that has been run through all commercial reactors in the US, is
still presently at each site where it was used. None of it has
ever even been *moved* offsite, ever.

This has to do with the economics of 'storage' (ie, simply
sticking it in a swimming pool full of water with a rent-a-cop
watching it) vs. the political and technical nightmare of
a) moving it someplace, somehow, and b) doing something with
it once it gets there.

It's a *hell* of a lot cheaper to purchase a rent-a-cop
than it is to buy a congresscritter.

Eventually the utility simply sells the entire reactor site
to the state for one dollar, and walks away from the situation.
Instant SEP.

This is done once the operating costs for the aged plant
begin to cut into the ROI.

Jim

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