Shelved nuclear can solve the energy crisis

A breakthrough almost forgotten in nuclear technology has the ability to practice the use of fossil fuels within 10 years to replace, according to researchers. However, the technology under the Clinton administration has been abandoned at the height of anti-nuclear movement in the United States, and are selected by the Bush administration. Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) technology has been tested and proven viable at Argonne National Laboratory in Idaho, over a period of thirty years from the mid-1960s. This “fourth generation” of reactors use existing stocks of nuclear waste as fuel and clean energy to produce virtually no radioactive byproduct. The objections to the sharing of nuclear energy is virtually eliminated. Based on current research, it is conceivable that virtually 100% of electricity production are compatible with the technology of fast reactors built in several years if we were to migrate to this technology aggressively. With the currently available nuclear waste as fuel would be several hundreds of years of operation at the current level of global energy consumption license, without the need for extraction or degradation of other nuclear fuels. In addition, the process consumes almost all radioactive materials, so that small quantities of waste, reducing periods measured in decades rather than millennia needs. In addition, the design of the reactor disaster in chief. In case of problems during the process, the closed reactor, of course. This has already been successfully tested at the facility at Argonne. Concerns about the proliferation of nuclear material are also reduced because the material is used in the IFR much less conducive to the development of weapons that the current generation of nuclear plants. The main obstacle seems to commercialization of a process to prepare the existing stocks of nuclear waste nuclear fuel to the IFR. Although this technology, called pyrotraitement, was developed and tested, the cost of processing a large-scale effort would require a significant investment. There is a growing consensus that technology is not enough green energy to meet our energy needs. Those in the fossil fuel industries with higher natural gas and coal, which has pushed to add the greenhouse gas CO2 and the other already high concentration in the atmosphere further. It seems that a technology that can more than a decade, the key to solving both the energy crisis and an important factor in controlling climate change think has been neglected.