alt.energy.renewable

On Mar 8, 12:48=A0pm, bill wrote:
> > > Licensing is sometimes 40 years. They can last longer.
> > >>You then have to store the radioactive
> > >>construction waste for tens of thousands of years.
>
> > > Canada has recycled reactor parts.
> > Which reactor parts did they recycle? I can't image how radioactive
> > components of a nuke plant can be reused....
>
> Why not? =A0Melt them down, fix the alloy ratios, and reform them into
> less critical components. =A0OR melt them, mix the metal in with a much
> larger batch of similar metal and use them on the next reactor
> anywhere. =A0Radiation is not the boogy-man, if you are working with
> molten steel, a few curies are the least of your worries.

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