On 01/11/16 11:43, newshound wrote:
On 11/1/2016 9:11 AM, harry wrote:
On Monday, 31 October 2016 21:37:18 UTC, newshound wrote:
On 10/30/2016 3:01 PM, harry wrote:


Noboby knows how much a reactor costs to decommission.
It's never been done.

We only need one counterexample to show that this statement is false.
Here's one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shippi..._Power_Station

They take them apart and leave most to fester and store the rest away.
But not permanently dealt with.
No-one knows how.


Fiction.
What happened to the nuclear fuel?

You said decommission. That's what's been done.

The technology for transmuting the actinides from reprocessed fuel is
trivial.

"Leave well alone for 10,000 years. Job done!"

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