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Not all reactors result in long term storage of waste, I believe some designs can use existing spent fuel even. I would really like to see investment in other
by alex_hitchins 10y ago
Not all reactors result in long term storage of waste, I believe some designs can use existing spent fuel even.
I would really like to see investment in other types of reactors such as pebblebed, molten salt etc. If we don't build the stations to create nuclear missiles, we can make them much more 'friendly'.
- NoGravitas 10y ago> Not all reactors result in long term storage of waste, I believe some designs can use existing spent fuel even. Yes, those are the ones that have proliferation problems.
- alex_hitchins 10y agoI'd hope that these obstacles could be battled with research and funding. All countries require affordable and carbon-free power, if we jointly took on research I strongly feel we could engineer out or around some of the issues. Perhaps It's just an idealistic layman's perspective, either way I think more research in the nuclear power provision would be sensible.
- Spooky23 10y agoThe spent fuel ones produce plutonium as a byproduct -- not good. I'm all for new technology, but the lobbying/PR effort that produced this article is 100% based on existing technology that makes big engineering firms/government contractors billions of dollars.