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There is nothing here that deals with the fundamental problems of nuclear power * Long term waste. Must be contained for hundreds of thousands of years * Dec
by worik 5y ago
There is nothing here that deals with the fundamental problems of nuclear power
* Long term waste. Must be contained for hundreds of thousands of years
* Decommissioning. Nothing lasts for ever. What do we do with an old reactor vessel and the land it stood on?
There are many much better ways of producing energy. But unfortunately for the greed heads they are mostly decentralised (wind and solar are ready now) which means big industrial cash generators do not result from them.
This is a boondoggle. I wish I could say it is the last gasp of the desperate, but it is the core of the military industrial complex heaving its weight around.
- yurtboy 5y agoNuclear fuel can be reused in Oklo’s reactor. This will reduce the dangerous isotopes, which will decay in less than 1,000 years. Look under the bed again, no need to fear the boogeyman. We won’t decommission the site, we will upgrade it and ensure it remains valuable infrastructure for the remainder of civilization. There is no better way to generate 24/7 clean energy. To call this a boondoggle is to misunderstand the goal of ending energy poverty globally.