Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after Fukushima

Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by pfdietz on Sunday March 14, 2021 @10:44AM (#26455829)

France's fast breeders have been failures, and they recently cancelled their next iteration trying to make them work. China doesn't have any fast breeders beyond research work, as far as I know.

It may be that sodium cooled fast breeders had a fundamental materials flaw that was not recognized soon enough.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11665-010-9763-5

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Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by hcurtiss on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:21PM (#26471747)

Thanks for that. Even if those jurisdictions are not using fast breeder technology, I think they're still pretty good evidence that nuclear proliferation is low risk.

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