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It's sunken cost. Anything you can do to extract value out of them offsets the cost of maintaining the SNF repos. 90% percent of uranium is not burnt, and it's
by bassman9000 7y ago
It's sunken cost. Anything you can do to extract value out of them offsets the cost of maintaining the SNF repos.
90% percent of uranium is not burnt, and it's fuel for MSR. Subtract the costs of movilizing the fuel, and tell me it's not worth dumping it in a MSR to be burtn almost to the 100%.
- philipkglass 7y agoThis would be a good argument if we already had industrial scale molten salt reactors just waiting to burn up spent fuel from light water reactors. But we don't, so anyone wishing to burn up spent fuel this way has to pay additional costs for researching and constructing the new reactors.