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Or, you know, we could reprocess (recycle?) the waste into much shorter lived compounds and fuel for 2nd generation breeder reactors. Then there wouldn't be a p
by maaku 12y ago
Or, you know, we could reprocess (recycle?) the waste into much shorter lived compounds and fuel for 2nd generation breeder reactors. Then there wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
- saalweachter 12y agoYeah, I have a certain sadness regarding nuclear waste. It's dangerous, yes, but it's also one of the rarest things in the world. Trying to throw it away seems so wasteful.
- maaku 12y agoYeah it's basically an assortment of radiation sources, e.g. the things we routinely use in medicine and obscure industrial cases. The short-lived stuff could see immediate use in various contexts that need access to radioactive sources, or in RTG batteries. The long-lived stuff (plutonium, mostly) can be used as fuel in reactors that currently exist mostly on paper, but would work if there was money to build them. There isn't a radioactive waste problem. There's an anti-nuclear political problem :(