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Re:Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear react... by danbruc on Monday December 02, 2019 @10:38AM (#21683283)
But it is of course not only the price of buying a couple of those containers, you also need a facility to store them, you may have to move them around, you probably have to guard them, you have to monitor them, ...
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Re:Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear react... by hvidgaard on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @02:34AM (#21690601)
Of course it isn't, but at least the CASTORS can be safely transported by train, and a processing facility is not orders of magnitude more expensive than the power plants themselves. If we could forgo the nimbyism, we already have a technical solution and a reasonable estimate of the cost now and in the next 100 years. It could easily be factored in the cost of electricity from nuclear and put in a fund for when it's needed.
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