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Most SMRs are built kind of like giant AA batteries. You use them for 60 or so years and then swap them out, sending the old ones back to be re-processed in an
by foxyv 3y ago
Most SMRs are built kind of like giant AA batteries. You use them for 60 or so years and then swap them out, sending the old ones back to be re-processed in an off site location specialized for it.
What makes this utter fiction, would be getting approval from the various government agencies to transport the reactor to his home. Also getting a rail spur into his back yard. Then getting approval to turn it on.
In addition, it would be the equivalent of transporting a fully fueled Falcon 9 to your house... Small is relative! Then the transport out would be even worse because nuclear waste is even more regulated.