[mitchntx]

Katrina is gonna cause a $.20 spike in fuel costs .....

[z28barnett]

Mitch,

You raise some good points, and provide some good info from first hand experience.

The 8x8x8 room is a small volume. But it is important to note that you need to rent that room for 25,000 years or longer depending on what the half lives of the isotopes in question are.

I still don't have much faith in the life cycle cost. Even if the nuclear industry has gotten smarter, they thought they were smart enough back when the first plants were built. It stands to reason that time may show us that we are still pretty dumb.

Fusion would be the best solution but no pratical system exists at this time.

But on the plus side, nuclear energy is the only proven alternative to fossil fuels around. Even if it is a bad idea, we may have to go to it anyway.

Around here some plant is making oil from turkey guts, so many things are possible. But everything comes down to cost.

Z28