[NukeNet] Need Arguments Against Vitrification and Transmutation

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 Does someone have good arguments written up about why nuclear waste
 vitrification and/or transmutation are not good ideas?

 I recall hearing about failed vitrification experiments at West
 Valley, NY... something about the glass logs cracking?  Also, it
 seems that vitrification only contaminates more materials, increasing
 the volume.  I understand that some are promoting vitrification for
 plutonium-containing waste, as a counter-proliferation strategy.  Is
 there any reason to promote it for nuclear waste in general?  I know
 some who ARE promoting that, and it seems like a really bad idea, but
 I could use details.

 I know little about transmutation, but doesn't that also require a
 chemical process to separate isotopes before trying to transmute
 them?  Wouldn't this also ultimately increase the volume of toxic and
 radioactive wastes?

 Mike
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In 1979, after the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant meltdown, Dr Roy 
spent
the summer break from A.S.U. to see if it was feasible to backwards engineer
so-called spent fuel (nuclear waste). He found photon transmutation would 
work
and reduce plutonium 239, the aim of nuclear power plants, to zero 
radioactivity.
Other isotopes also by the same method.

It can be done with current technology cost effectively. Dr. Roy estimated 
costs
at $80 million dollars for the pilot treatment plant at each nuclear reactor 
where
the waste is stored in cooling ponds. Use the same steam powered electric
generators to produce electricity from the heat.

Then president Ronald Reagan signed the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which
made burial of nuclear waste, federal policy. This put alternatives like 
photon
transmutation (the Roy Process) in limbo. It is still available in the form 
of a Patent
application, apparatus and theory.

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