• prole@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    You should look into the modern tech here, it isn’t just burying millions of tons of toxic waste under New Jersey. There are “breeder reactors” that use the recycled fuel to generate more power. They actually generate more fissile material than they consume, so instead of waste, they mostly produce more fuel.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor

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      1 year ago

      They also don’t exist in large scale energy production and likely never will. (Just some test plants) They’re too expensive compared with other energy generation so no-one’s seriously considering them right now.

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      1 year ago

      They actually generate more fissile material than they consume,

      So we’ll need to store or dispose of large amounts of fissile material until it can be used – which only makes more? This seems unsustainable.