However, that still does nothing to asuage fears about catastrophic failures. Also, it doesn't eliminate the waste, since all of that fuel rod will eventually produce waste. It does, however, at least make better use of a bad thing.
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"just because this guy's project was killed and he's peeved about the stupidity does not mean he's going to get all Swift Boat Veterans for Nukes and start making shit up"
Science does not make a man a saint. This is giving human beings too much credit.
How does this only produce electricity? That doesn't make sense. Given the types of radiation, it's highly selective to say this process would only lead to electron excitement. If nuclear reactions were that easy to disappate, I'd have a reactor in my car by now (and I wouldn't need an alternator, to boot!).
Radiation isn't just going to be nice enough to hit one part of an atom. Some variety from the reaction is going to strike the whole atom when the radiation comes into contact with whatever it does come into contact with.
This, to be honest, is the part of this whole theory that makes me doubt all of this. This answer is too simple and too self-satisfying. My natural inclination is to doubt these things.
One of the other causes for doubt is the number of absolutes being laid down here.
Too many things from this theory are being laid down as absolutes. Too many potential solutions are being represented as solved.
My natural inclination is to doubt under these circumstances.
