On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 23:44:12 -0400, Gary Coffman
wrote:


Correct, and they've already paid the federal government $22.5 billion
dollars to do just that. The problem is, the federal government won't
live up to their end of the bargain. The feds took the money, but they
won't deliver the service.


This tempest in a teapot is all purely political, of course. There is no
valid scientific, engineering, or financial reason why nuclear waste disposal
should be a major issue. Since 1954, there have been 100 commercial
reactors decommissioned, 250 reseach reactors, and about a dozen fuel
processing facilities. We have a very good handle on the methodologies
required, and on their actual costs.

The trust fund was designed to cover costs higher than actual practice
has shown us to be realistic. In other words, it has a lot more money in it
than is strictly necessary to safely accomplish decommissioning and
high level waste disposal for all existing US plants.

Gary

Doesn't that come to 22.5 million per commercial reactor? Sounds like
they are going to need more $. Or 6 million each for all of them?