Re:U.S. Nuclear Comeback Stalls as Two Reactors Are Abandoned
by misterhtmlcss on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @08:31PM
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Actually no, he's not talking about Thorium reactors, he's talking about Breeder Reactors I believe, which will allow the fuel to be recycled over and over until it's virtually exhausted of all it's radioactivity.
I think that's what he is talking about. I studied this 30 years ago in primary school, so I might be off, but that's what I remember.
It's actually quite cool what other reactors are capable of and the amount of fuel we waste with existing commercialized types of which were designed to produce weapons grade plutonium as a by product, so efficiency wasn't valued over the byproduct of plutonium.
I think that's what he is talking about. I studied this 30 years ago in primary school, so I might be off, but that's what I remember.
It's actually quite cool what other reactors are capable of and the amount of fuel we waste with existing commercialized types of which were designed to produce weapons grade plutonium as a by product, so efficiency wasn't valued over the byproduct of plutonium.
Anyway I think nuclear is interesting.