In the case of LFTR waste, it tends to come out “hot” but it decays MUCH more rapidly than conventional LWRs.
In a one year scenario, a 1MgW LFTR reactor will generate a ton of waste of which 83% becomes inert within 10 years. This inert waste can be partitioned off and processed for secondary products such as medical isotopes, precious metals, magnets and gases.
The same can be said when a LFTR is used to burn up nuclear waste from Yucca Mountain. Useful byproducts are created in the burning up process.
Gas waste, such as Xenon and Krypton, can be continuously filtered off due to the fact that a LFTR has a liquid core and gases lift upward.
What people need to realize is that the Thorium decay cycle is quite different than the Uranium decay cycle. That’s whats so awesome about Thorium.
Is Nuclear Waste Really Waste?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv-mFSoZOkE
Energy From Thorium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZR0UKxNPh8
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Change 1MgW to 1GW
I stand corrected. I had been led to believe that U-233 fission resulted in nastier isotopes than U-235.