Bob Cook wrote:
" Governments around the world have been working on that issue for about
60 years. There is not a good solution that’s within economic and
political
“reason”."
From my paper "Cleaning up the Nuclear Waste at Hanford" published in
Glass Industry Oct 2000
Electromelt designed and built a 6
ton/day vitrification furnace for the
DOE in nine months for $900,000 in
1981, the furnace produced excel-
lent glass, but, despite having commis-
sioned it, the DOE refused to inspect it.
Instead the DOE hired a local company
to cut it up and take the remains to the
local scrap year.
This furnace was designed to be built at every nuclear power plant so
that radwaste could be vitrified on site before transporting it for
storage. So solutions have been available for long time.
