Return to the nuclear waste forum top page. This is very doable in existing nuclear reactors. Some calculate that the energy equivalent of the U and Pu in dismantled nuclear weapons in both the US and the former Soviet Union could provide about a trillion dollars worth of electricity.
Lets just go back to using candles, forget about progress.
I don't know of any occupation that doesn't carry some risk. Ask the question what expense has caused the cost of operation of plants to be excessive. I cannot conceive that the career nuclear scientist do not care about the safe operation of a nuclear facility and the safety of the employees. Any additional costs to nuclear generating facilities would just have to be considered a necessary cost of doing business. My biggest concern with the development of nuclear power in this country is that we have no current technology available that allows us to store nuclear waste.