Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ...
by fuoqi on Thursday March 11, 2021 @07:53AM
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Russia already has more than enough nukes and has agreed to limit its stockpiles together with the US (this agreement includes mutual monitoring of warheads). None of those countries need the "burner" reactors or imported spent fuel rods to build more nukes (and usually those rods are simply returned to a country of production), there are far easier ways of doing it. Uranium ore can be easily bought on international market and even can be extracted from the ocean water at a reasonable (but economically unviable at the moment) cost.
You know what that mean? That means they enriched spent fuels. That means “high level waste” = “crude Uranium ore”.
Why would you want means of unrecoverable storage for “high level waste” yet not actually carry out that plan? Because those are precious nuclear material.
That also means Option 3 is politically improbable: means Russians and Chinese might refine it into nukes up there and away from the world to see.