Can we re-use nuclear energy?

Question

Can we re-use nuclear energy?

Answer 1

Depending on the meaning of your question, one possible YES answer is correct because certain breeder reactor designs create more fissionable fuel than they start out with, and that fuel can be recycled from old reactor fuel.  That's only being done in Europe right now because of the presumption that terrorists will try to steal this type of fuel used fuel rod and divert the recovered plutonium into a terrorist nuclear bomb.

Answer 2

The Atom can not be created or destroyed.. it merely changes form.  In the case of a Nuclear Reactor, the atoms are CHANGED into heat, light and ENERGY... and are used up... so HOW would you suggest "we" can re-use something that no longer exists.?

Answer 3

THE SAME TRAGICALLY SHORTSIGHTED SYSTEM THAT BROUGHT US WIDESPREAD GLOBAL WARMING NOW OFFERS US A GRAM OF GLOBAL ROULETTE WITH NUCLEAR WASTE.  WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE THOUSANDS OF SPENT FUEL RODS AND NUCLEAR WASTE?  WHAT HAPPENS IF JUST (1) SPENT FUEL ROD IS EXPOSED?  IT WILL CONTAMINATE A 29,000 MILE RADIUS OF THE EARTH FOR CENTURIES.

The Depleted Uranium (DU) story, has been TOTALLY blacked out by the media,  DU is the leftover uranium after uranium enrichment, and is the spent uranium left over in Nuke power plants. Rather than having to spend money to dispose of this leftover uranium as they should, or rather I should say there is no safe place to dispose of uranium) the government/military decided to use it in munitions, missiles, bombs, bullets, you name it and it has uranium in it.  Uranium thoroughly pierces too. So, they make money while destroying the Earth at the same time by producing munitions with it, rather than having to pay to dispose of it.

The UN has outlawed the use of DU as a WMD. The continued use of DU in Iraq makes the illegal Iraqi occupation a genocide and a destroyer of the entire Earth and atmosphere. DU has a half life of billion of years -- virtually forever.

The DU munitions explode (bunker busters are DU, too), and become airborn into the atmosphere. It is poisoning the whole world indirectly, and has been since the 1991 Gulf War, where I believe DU was first used. It was used in Bosnia and Afghanistan, and is being used indiscriminately in Iraq again now. Leuren Moret the Canadian DU expert says the DU we have dropped for the last 16 years is the equivalent radiation of more than 40,000 Hiroshima bombs ! So, we are engaged in a "nuclear" war even now.

You and I, and our children, are breathing, eating and drinking DU. Cancer and other chronic disease, as well as birth defects, which are on the rise everywhere.  

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Answer 4

Not really.

Though our current reactors can't use very much of the energy stored in Uranium so we could actually reuse the nuclear waste in other reactors (and some countries are doing exactly that) which also has the side benefit of reducing the amount of waste produced and reducing the lifetime of that waste.

Answer 5

Yes nuclear fuel rods lose their power because a skin forms on them kind of like rust that lowers their efficiency. The rods can be sent through a recycling process that removes this nuclear rust and the rods becomes as good as when new. Then the rust can be collected for making new rods that are even more powerful than the original fuel rods were, this rust is called plutonium and can be either made into bombs or high power reactors. Right now we are using our fuel rods for only a short period and throwing them away.

What Jimmy Carter did with that presidential order would be like you buying precharged ni-cad batteries and no charger, using them once and throwing them away. His order makes about that much sense and so nuclear fuel rods that are good for a hundred thousand years if recycled properly are wastefully scrapped after 10 or 12 years of service when the plutonium skin lowers their efficiency a little. And his order on preventing space based power plants from being built through cutting back the space program makes even less sense when you realize that this country would be the worlds largest exporter of low cost electricity today. Instead we are the world’s largest importer of oil to produce very costly electricity instead, dumb, very dumb indeed. Thank you Jimmy Carter for the problems in the middle east, the boom and bust bubble economy, and the energy crisis that is breaking our economic backs.

Answer 6

Yeah!

Nuclear component have lots of energy so they can be reused

Answer 7

no we cant