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All of the long-lasting waste generated by nuclear plants can be used as fuel in breeder reactors. Newer generation reactors are also immune to the kind of melt
by ETH_start 4y ago
All of the long-lasting waste generated by nuclear plants can be used as fuel in breeder reactors. Newer generation reactors are also immune to the kind of meltdowns that afflicted Chernobyl and Fukushima.
It took decades of massive government subsidies for solar panel production to scale up and advance enough to make solar as affordable as it is today. The same could be achieved with nuclear, with the additional benefits of not having the additional costs of storage and transmission infrastructure, which push up the real cost of solar to "$472 per MWH":
https://web.archive.org/web/20220916003958/https://files.americanexperiment.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The-High-Cost-of-100-Percent-Carbon-Free-Electricity-by-2040-in-Minnesota.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20220916003958/https://files.ame...