Send radioactive waste to bottom of the ocean?

[nikkkom]

My previous post is not really off topic, as it addresses the proposed method of disposing of spent fuel rods in such a way that they cannot be recovered. My point is that such disposal is not a good idea, because spent fuel rods contain recoverable fissile material which can be used in a type of reactor that does not create spent fuel assemblies to dispose of.

Thorium reactor also produces waste. Less transuranics than uranium cycle, but about the same amount of fission products. This waste needs to be disposed off just the same.

 

[Steve Brown]

Thorium reactor also produces waste. Less transuranics than uranium cycle, but about the same amount of fission products. This waste needs to be disposed off just the same.

Now it is straying off topic to debate the relative merits of light water reactors versus molten salt reactors. For that reason, I'll post my reply to your above post in the LFTR thread.