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France seems to be a pretty solid argument there’s little here to cause concern. China too.
by hcurtiss 6y ago
France seems to be a pretty solid argument there’s little here to cause concern. China too.
- pjc50 6y agoI'm not sure what your point is, because both those countries have nuclear weapons?
- hcurtiss 6y agoNo, because their abundant use of nuclear power, including fast breeders, has not contributed to nuclear proliferation.
- pfdietz 6y agoFrance's fast breeders have been failures, and they recently cancelled their next iteration trying to make them work. China doesn't have any fast breeders beyond research work, as far as I know. It may be that sodium cooled fast breeders had a fundamental materials flaw that was not recognized soon enough. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11665-010-9763-5 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11665-010-9763-5
- hcurtiss 6y agoThanks for that. Even if those jurisdictions are not using fast breeder technology, I think they're still pretty good evidence that nuclear proliferation is low risk.