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"requiring much less copper, concrete, and ground space for the same amount of available energy" Does this include long-term storage of the waste products?
by jascii 5y ago
"requiring much less copper, concrete, and ground space for the same amount of available energy"
Does this include long-term storage of the waste products?
- dgregd 5y agoIn two decades we’ll be sending nuclear waste into deep space.
- jascii 5y agohttps://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/why-cant-nuclear-waste-be-sent-into-outer-space/ https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/why-cant-nuclear-w...
- junon 5y agoPlease check out some up-to-date information about nuclear waste storage. We've gotten to the point refinement has taken reactant levels down to acceptable levels for low-risk storage and can even re-use them in other reactor designs.
- jascii 5y agoAny specific sources of up-to-date information you recommend?
- jascii 5y agoSo, it looks like re-processing other then for weapon production only gets done on a very small, experimental scale because it is simply not economical, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing). This still leaves us with an endlessly growing stockpile of dangerous nuclear waste products.