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The Canadians do it with CANDU (Canadian Deuterium Uranium) reactors. They are extremely (almost inherently) safe. They run on natural, unenriched uranium or a
by StrictDabbler 5y ago
The Canadians do it with CANDU (Canadian Deuterium Uranium) reactors.
They are extremely (almost inherently) safe. They run on natural, unenriched uranium or any mix of uranium, plutonium and thorium that you have to hand.
Nuclear power is, in a sense, a solved problem. You can just make dozens of CANDUs.
There are a few dozen political issues with procurement and weaponization that made the safe, boring CANDU reactor a non-option for American politics. It's a shame.
- perl4ever 5y agoIf you can overcome "political issues with weaponization", then can't you burn the waste in a breeder reactor and be way more efficient? My impression is that it adds many orders of magnitude to how long the available uranium will last.