Re:Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038
by dralley on Sunday January 27, 2019 @12:00PM
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It's a political problem, not a technological problem. We have the ability to use waste to fuel fast-neutron reactors, which not only reduces the amount of waste but makes it less difficult to deal with. The problem is that one output of these reactors would be plutonium, and due to anti-proliferation treaties it opens up a political can of worms.
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Re:Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038
by amai on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:36PM
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This solution has been tried for a long time and it didn't work either:
"In 2010 the International Panel on Fissile Materials said "After six decades and the expenditure of the equivalent of tens of billions of dollars, the promise of breeder reactors remains largely unfulfilled and efforts to commercialize them have been steadily cut back in most countries". In Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, breeder reactor development programs have been abandoned."