From: gcowan@eagle.ca   
      
   Rodney Kelp wrote:   
   >   
   > Well then, a practical use for high level nuclear waste would be in electric   
   > cars with RTG's.   
      
   Not practical for various reasons (I suppose probably not serious,   
   but anyway). One, cars seldom run all day and all night; better never,   
   I can tell you.   
   Two, plutonium-238 isn't nuclear waste, but an intentionally   
   made radioisotope of high thermal power and very low penetrating   
   radiation.   
   Three, there isn't enough actual nuclear waste, if these other problems   
   were solved, to power any worthwhile number of cars.   
      
      
   --- Graham Cowan, former hydrogen fan   
   http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/Paper_for_11th_CHC.doc --   
   "Boron: A Better Energy Carrier than Hydrogen?"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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