Re:Russian plutonium-fueled breeder reactor reaches first cr...
by DennisP on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @09:38PM
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The long-term waste is the transuranics, which reactors like the BN-800 can use for fuel. What's left is fission products, which go back to the radioactivity of the original ore in a couple centuries.
Transuranics are 99% of conventional nuclear waste so we'd reduce the waste volume by that much, too.
Transuranics are 99% of conventional nuclear waste so we'd reduce the waste volume by that much, too.