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Are you gradually irradiating the reactor? I mean that's what happens with fast neutrons and... Anything Your fuel costs are replaced by the reactor replacemen
by AtlasBarfed 4y ago
Are you gradually irradiating the reactor? I mean that's what happens with fast neutrons and... Anything
Your fuel costs are replaced by the reactor replacement cost. Spent nuclear rod fuel waste is replaced by the irradiated materials in the reactor.
- willis936 4y agoIndeed reactors are not free. The irradiated materials situation isn't as bad as fission though since they are low level activation materials that become safe within a few hundred years, as opposed to trans-uranics which are radioactive for thousands of years and will always be toxic. Since it is a complicated engineering problem there is space to turn engineering effort into reduced cost.