Use The Nuclear Waste

A Scientific American Article (2006) clearly explains how current technology can be supplemented to produce power reactors that can essentially burn over 90% of what is currently designated as "waste." The advantages of the proposed system include the following: (1) new facilities can use the current sites with the waste stream now being generated by the boiling water reactors going directly into the new fast neutron devices, (2) no weapons grade materials are produced, (3) the remaining wastes decay in hundreds, not thousands, of years and are only about 5% the size of the current waste stream. Employing these new technologies will be an act of political will. Current vested interests will have to be won over. The citizens of Nevada should be willing allies. I noted these facts in letters to Al Gore and our local legislators without any meaningful response from anyone. It is a tragedy if any politician takes a position against Nuclear as a major part of our energy problem or global warming without knowing about and acknowledging these new tools. We could run this country on our current store of nuclear waste for maybe five million years without burnng a pound of coal or a gallon of oil. I invite serious comment - particular negative ones.