Engineering

• Argonne proposals are not mature technology

  • Electro-pyro reprocessing is in the laboratory demonstration phase, not commercialized.
  • Current French reprocessing does not reduce waste burden

• Past experience is not promising

  • Fast neutron reactors have been built, and abandoned in the past.
  • Costs of reprocessing are high and always higher than estimated.
  • Major environmental problems with existing reprocessing facilities.
  • What is new?