Nuclear Spent Fuel

If we had our way, the United States would be recycling nuclear spent fuel or waste as some call it, which it’s not.  I wonder how many Americans know that over 50% of the nuclear energy produced in the United States is now coming from dismantled Russian nuclear warheads.  Environmentalists seem worried about some calamity from nuclear power plants when it just the opposite.  Nuclear weapons are being burned in nuclear power plants all over the world.  And why wouldn’t they?  A thermo-nuclear warhead can be used as fuel in a nuclear power plant very easily and should be.  The more power plants we have the more chances the number of these warheads will go down.
 
“USEC, as executive agent for the U.S. government, implements the 20-year agreement with its Russian counterpart at no cost to U.S. taxpayers.  The commercial program is now in its 14th year.  By the program’s completion in 2013, 500 MT of HEU, the equivalent of 20,000 nuclear warheads, will be down blended into LEU.”  Business Wire 3/27/2008
 
Alarmists have used fear and emotion in an attempt to halt construction of nuclear power plants when the plain facts speak otherwise.  Climate change is inevitable and nuclear cannot do it by itself.  It needs all the help it can get from its little brother and sister Sunny and Windy.