Posted By Garry Adams A Question to the members of the Nuclear Community. Firstly, with regard to the U.K. Government's commitment to initiate 3 strategic initiatives to control carbon emissions. In the interest of time management I shall restrict the content of this initial post to Strategy N.o.1: Nuclear, The French Connection. However if there is sufficient interest generated by the forum members, Strategy N.o.2: Pearl Project G.T.L.,Qatar and N.o.3: Offshore Installations Decommissioning, China, mat be discussed. Strategy N.o.1: Nuclear. The most recent Anglo French talks has implied that Energy De France maybe a Prime Mover in the Construction of EPR 3rd Generation Nuclear Power Stations. Apparently the U.K. Government indicate that there may be potential for 12 of these Power Stations,however this maybe a deliberate inflation of numbers, a more achievable figure maybe between 6 to 8. Finaly, my Question is...how much nuclear waste would one of these Power Stations produce ?, i.e. Volume and pay load weight of spent fuel rods and associated waste product. Regards, Garry...

Posted By Doug Kelly You could try this link - loads of information that I'm certain will answer your questions http://www.epr-reactor.c...sp?P=139&L=EN&id_cat=1.2

Posted By Jeffrey Watt I like it. Why don't we pay the ex soviet states to store it in Chernobyl...or the US to store it at the Trinity site....or in an Atoll etc.- basically somewhere where the tea boils itself and everyone including the wildlife are permanently hi-vis due to the background radiation. Sure there may be a downside but I can't think of any off hand. Radioactive regards Jeff

Posted By Pete Longworth So That's why they all glow in the dark. I thought it was because they all had Readybrek for breakfast. (Showing my age now)

Posted By steve e ashton Garry: Sorry to a be wet blanket but the 'solar sail' idea will not work. A solar sail can only ever drive the payload away from the sun. It is not like a wind-driven sail on earth, where resistance to a second fluid (water) or friction with land (land yachts etc ) enable craft to sail 'into the wind' Basically, there is no second fluid. Its a vacuum. Steve

Posted By Garry Adams Steven The solar sail would gather power to supply the propulsion system, given that there is no resistance in a vacuum, I would expect the craft would be propelled to words the Sun ?. regards, Garry...

Posted By John J We could follow the suggestion of placing all spent waste under the rainforests (James Lovelock I believe). It would certainly reduce the liklihood of them being dug up and, looking at the area around Tschernobyl, leave the wildlife to thrive. The reality is that there is a lot of value in making the fuel into Mixed Oxide elements and getting even more use out of them, John