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As far as I understand, unless we develop reliable fast breeders, there is hardly enough fuel for that many nuclear plants. I thought the Japanese were on a goo
by FrojoS 15y ago
As far as I understand, unless we develop reliable fast breeders, there is hardly enough fuel for that many nuclear plants.
I thought the Japanese were on a good way to build an energy economy based on breeders. Now, these efforts might be on halt.
- ctdonath 15y agoAFAIK, that's entirely a political issue at this point. We have the technology, we just are just skittish to process the fuel thru the bomb-suitable phase, and haven't correlated catastrophic failure with building the facility on a tsunami-and-earthquake-prone site. Psychology, not technology.