As for the breakdown of electricity rates, more detailed information needs to be disclosed, such as (1) «wheeling charges» (cost of transmitting electricity); (2) the cost of generated electricity equivalent to the amount of expenses shared to cover
the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, etc. (included in the wheeling charges; legislation requires all electricity users to pay a share of this cost); and (3) the amount of a «promotion of power - resources development tax,» which is used to subsidize local governments hosting nuclear power plants.
Not exact matches
Thus it remains intact, disarming concerns about long - term
spent fuel storage or the theft
of nuclear material during refueling or
fuel reprocessing, the company said.
Therefore, either
reprocessing or recycling
spent nuclear fuel, as the French and Japanese do, is likely to be a waste
of money better
spent on improving the light - water reactors presently in use.
For example, an entire
nuclear cycle involving light - water reactors,
reprocessing of the
spent fuel, and disposal
of small «packages»
of highly radioactive
nuclear waste in deep boreholes could prove an attractive option, Moniz noted.
The southern Urals are home to the secretive Mayak facility, the scene
of one
of the world's worst
nuclear accidents 60 years ago, and speculation soon turned to a possible accident at its
reprocessing plant, which extracts isotopes from
spent nuclear fuel.
Energy Probe has also been successful in stopping the export
of Canada's Candu
nuclear reactors, most
of which have been sought by states with
nuclear weapons aspirations — the Candu design lends itself to surreptitious diversion
of spent fuel suitable for
reprocessing into weapons grade material.
Dr. Walker highlighted the vulnerability
of the entire
nuclear fuel cycle — from uranium mining to
nuclear enrichment to commercial
nuclear power to
spent fuel storage, transportation, and finally
reprocessing.
First
of all Uraniu Nitride
fuel provides possibility
spend fuel be
reprocessed by enrichment indefinite number
of times therefore practicaly no
nuclear waist.