Reply #133: The subject of nuclear transmutation has been exhaustively covered.

[NNadir]

A recent monograph on the subject was put out by the National Academy of Sciences entitled "Nuclear Waste". It covered exhaustively this topic in several thousand pages. I referenced it two years ago on SmirkingChimp but you still haven't read it.

The conclusion of this document is that it is cheaper to simply dump waste, and probably very safe to do so, but that the reason for transmutation is to allay unreasonable public fears. I argue that this is true only in the current climate, where nuclear fuel is extremely low priced, but will not be so in 50 years.

William Stacey's "Nuclear Reactor Physics" recently published by John Wiley Sciences has several chapters on actinide and fission product consumption reactors.

What does it matter to you though? You don't think nuclear power is acceptable under any circumstances, and in two years of discussing the subject with you, I rather think it would be unwise to pretend otherwise. You have just spent several days here remarking that my posts are meaningless and silly in several places (as I am responding in several places.) Why then obsess on the "meaningless and silly?" Just call me a fool and move on. Or just abbreviate your response to "NNadir you are an idiot!" This is absolutely fine with me Boodoq.

Please don't pretend though, that you have a subtle or open mind and would actually bother to read or understand references if I posted them. You will not and cannot.