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This. What we currently call “nuclear waste” is just a fuel for a type of nuclear reactor that we could build, but haven’t yet built due to over–regulation of t

by db48x 5y ago

This. What we currently call “nuclear waste” is just a fuel for a type of nuclear reactor that we could build, but haven’t yet built due to over–regulation of the nuclear industry. If we had extracted all of the energy from it then it wouldn’t be radioactive any more, and if we had reactors for doing that then we wouldn’t need to store anything.

RF_Savage 5y ago
People get unreasonably jumpy about plutonium burning reactors and reprosessing nuclear waste to separate that plutonium for making reactor fuel. 97% of the energy in nuclear fuel is currently wasted.
- db48x 5y ago
  Yea, folks are pretty “jumpy” about nuclear power in general.