Reply #127: Reprocessing is uneconomic, dirty and dangerous. [View All]

[jpak]

Russia's Mayak reprocessing complex dumps large quantities of radionuclides directly into lakes and rivers - it's rendered large areas near the plant uninhabitable...

http://193.71.199.52/en/international/russia/nuke_industry/siberia/mayak/27922.html

http://www.seattle.battelle.org/russreg/ResourceCenter/MayakChemicalCombine-RussiaPlutonium.htm

The UK's THORP reprocessing plant had a major accident last year...

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2005/2005-05-11-02.asp

Japan's Rokkasho-mura reprocessing plant will cost >$20 billion (if they ever complete it) and will produce plutonium at a cost of >$2000 per kilogram

http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/vol_9/9-2/puend.html

In the US, the defunct West Valley commercial reprocessing plant produced ~1200 kg of plutonium nitrate and 600,000 gallons of high level liquid wastes. It will cost taxpayers (not the plant owners) $4-8 billion to decommission and decontaminate the site.

$4 billion for 1200 kg of Pu???????

such a deal

(not)