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ELIMINATING NUCLEAR WASTE
A Pathway to Prosperity
www.eGeneration.org
USING NUCLEAR WASTE INSTEAD OF STORING IT What You Should Know:
• A tremendous amount of energy is stored in high-‐level nuclear waste. • Solid fuel light water nuclear reactors (LWRs) are the predominant reactor type in America’s nuclear reactor fleet. They consume only about 1% to 3% of their solid fuel before it becomes contaminated and will no longer produce power in LWRs.
• Contaminated LWR solid fuel can be processed into a liquid fuel that will fission and produce power in a Molten Salt Reactor (MSR).
• A MSR can consume enough waste, in liquid form, and transform it into energy, to reduce present day long-‐lived nuclear waste stockpiles by 99%.
• Waste from a MSR is minute, about 1%, and only has to be sequestered from the environment for 300 years. Present waste, produced in much greater amounts, needs to be sequestered for 300,000 years.
• Commercialization of the MSR would likely cost less than $5 billion. When compared to the $12 billion spent on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
• Currently, $28.2 billion resides in the Nuclear Waste Management Fund, and only sequestration of nuclear waste is being considered as a solution for long-‐term high-‐level nuclear waste. Moving less than a fifth of these funds to MSR development could radically reduce our long-‐term waste problems.
The eGeneration Foundation is working to form an alliance to develop a national energy plan, promoting the next generation of fuels powered by Molten Salt Reactor technology. As studies and analysis of this promising technology are widely understood, there will be widespread industry support for commercializing this next generation process, thus providing a clear pathway to prosperity.
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