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Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by vkou on Monday November 08, 2021 @01:28PM (#29152451)
> I only have a limited understanding of nuclear reactors, but IIUC these would have produced nuclear waste, which we currently don't have any long-term storage plans for.

We currently have an inefficient long-term storage plan for it - store it on-site.

We had an efficient, cheaper long-term storage plan (Yucca mountain) that failed for political, not technical reasons.

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Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by PaulHoule on Monday November 08, 2021 @01:32PM (#29152495)
Nuclear waste is not waste.

The LWR extracts about only 1% of the energy from uranium. Next generation reactors like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ApH-0YHkA

can burn much more of the fuel and even destroy much of the dangerous fission products.

Looking at it that way we've already mined enough fuel to run our civilization for a few hundred years. It's good news.

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