Full Commission Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Category:
Full Commission
Date:
December 2, 2011
Location
JW Marriot Hotel
1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC
Phone:
(202) 393–2000
See map: Google Maps
The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future (Commission), hosted a public meeting at the JW Marriot Hotel, Washington, DC. The meeting was held to present the revised reports of the three subcommittees to the full Commission for deliberation. The subcommittee co-chairs discussed changes that have been made to their subcommittee report, and the Commissioners engaged in a public discussion of the proposed changes.
Meeting information, documents and presentations are provided below.
Webcast Link: http://webcast.streamlogics.com/audience/index.asp?eventid=31502931
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Re; Full Commission Meeting, Washington, D.C.
I am glad to see the reactor and fuel cycle committee addressing the heavy water reactor issue but there is a glaring omission, DUPIC ! (A) A federal corporation builds a fleet of heavy water reactors co located on the site of existing PWR and BWR reactors.DUPIC process the spent fuel on site and increase burn up rate of spent fuel in heavy water reactor.heavy water reactors pays into the civilian spent fuel fund.
(B) The transportation and storage subcommittee should have addressed this(DUPIC) with a cost comparison with the cost of transportation and storage.
(C)The reactor and fuel cycle committee should have compared the costs of s fleet of heavy water reactors and a local DUPIC process as compared to a central national reprocessing plant.
http://brc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/wilson.fuel_.cycle_.compari...
A BRC commissioned paper costs various reprocessing technology's and the cost of a national storage facility, both came out to $ 4 billion each or $ 8 billion total, Was this going to come out of the civilian waste fund? It is or was the duty of the BRC to compare a regional DUPIC costs with storage and reprocessing costs but you did not.
(D) it would take a fleet of 50 heavy water reactors to process the spent fuel from 100 PWR and BWR reactors the cost would be $400 billion over several decades but amortized with electrical power sales.
(E) we could transform TVA into this federal power corporation and yes it would take possession of the spent fuel.How would we raise the $400 billion ? A $ 200 billion a year carbon tax would accrue to all new born children that year in a SSI/Medicare soveriegn wealth fund, this fund would own the TVA/federal power corporation and capitalize its heavy water reactor build campaign.
The plan is here on TED talks,
http://www.ted.com/conversations/8049/carbon_taxes_placed_every_year.html
thank you
Steven Torry Rappolee