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>The costs for reactors currently built are ballooning Yes. Current reactor designs are a non-starter, especially considering the regulatory mess around them.
by Accujack 7y ago
>The costs for reactors currently built are ballooning
Yes. Current reactor designs are a non-starter, especially considering the regulatory mess around them. Years of them being an easy target for new "safety" laws because politicians want to look good have left them too expensive to build. We need a simpler, newer design that works around that by needing less regulation.
Radioactive waste from power generation is simple to handle, especially when newer reactor designs can for the most part re-use fuel. It's the waste from nuclear weapons production that's the issue.
- _ph_ 7y agoYes. Current reactor designs are a non-starter, especially considering the regulatory mess around them. Years of them being an easy target for new "safety" laws because politicians want to look good have left them too expensive to build. We need a simpler, newer design that works around that by needing less regulation. Which "new design" provides safe reactors that are cheaper to build? Radioactive waste from power generation is simple to handle, especially when newer reactor designs can for the most part re-use fuel. It's the waste from nuclear weapons production that's the issue. No, it is all nuclear waste that is a problem. There are no reactors which can re-use spent fuel. Fast breeders could theoretical do it, there is no one operational in the west.
- Accujack 7y ago>Which "new design" provides safe reactors that are cheaper to build? A trivial Google search for "molten salt reactor cost" or "new reactor design cost" can find this. Here's an example: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/05/seaborg-molten-salt-reactor-will-fit-on-a-truck-and-cost-less-than-coal-power.html https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/05/seaborg-molten-salt-re... By the way, this reactor can re-use spent fuel.