Comments on: Nuclear power: the tort system angle https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/02/nuclear-power-the-tort-system-angle/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 23 Feb 2020 17:00:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Heresolong https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/02/nuclear-power-the-tort-system-angle/comment-page-1/#comment-358181 Sun, 23 Feb 2020 17:00:58 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73933#comment-358181 I’d also point out (as a former Navy nuclear engineer) that there is significant technology available or proposed for recycling nuclear “waste” but the same people that oppose nuclear power won’t allow for nuclear waste reprocessing. I am not still in the loop as it’s been over 25 years but it seems to me that the research into re-use has been pretty much abandoned since no one was ever allowed to actually start the process.

I used to have an article (cut out of a paper, old school) that talked about using one of the byproducts to build a black box that could generate low levels of 110V electricity. It may have been a pipe dream but again, if you can’t process the waste, then it isn’t economically feasible to try to build such things anyway.

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