Title :
Recycling a bad idea
Abstract :
Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel is too risky, costly, and complicated. So why is the U.S. Department of Energy promoting it?.
Keywords :
fission reactor fuel reprocessing; government policies; commercial-scale designs; fuel recycling; proliferation risk; recycling economics; separated plutonium; spent nuclear fuel reprocessing; Crops; Environmental economics; Fuel economy; Government; Inductors; Power generation economics; Recycling; Research and development; US Department of Energy; Weapons;
Journal_Title :
Spectrum, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSPEC.2004.1317878
