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Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by kvgr on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @09:14AM (#27368287)
Todays nuclear waste is futures gold… i would be happy to buy all the waste. In the future it will be burned in next gen reactors. What now seems crazy will be reality in couple of decades.
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Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by m4rtink on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @09:42AM (#27368573)
It is in part literally gold and other heavier elements due to all the transmutation going on due to neutron bombardment in the reactor core. :)

It's just not yet economical to extract it out of the spent fuel for use.

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