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Not only is the Sun the most expensive place in the solar system to deliver cargo to, it's also a really stupid idea to throw away nuclear waste. What we call w
by db48x 6y ago
Not only is the Sun the most expensive place in the solar system to deliver cargo to, it's also a really stupid idea to throw away nuclear waste. What we call waste today is really just fuel that we have extracted about 2% of the available energy from. The other 98% of the energy is still in there, waiting for us to decide to use it. The only reason we don't use that energy is that we didn't build reactors that can use it, and these days it's basically impossible to build new reactors. Too much politics, too many rules, too much NIMBY.
- skitout 6y agoAnd way too expensive for classic reactor [1], while a reactor running with nuclear waste as fuel would probably be even more expensive as there are no one running... [1] https://www.lazard.com/media/451086/lazards-levelized-cost-of-energy-version-130-vf.pdf https://www.lazard.com/media/451086/lazards-levelized-cost-o...
- db48x 6y agoYes, too much NIMBY means too much cost. You can't really move a nuclear power plant away from your neighbors and into a desert because you need ample cooling water.