A bevy of rovers heading for the Moon

Re:A bevy of rovers heading for the Moon by touisteur on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:35PM (#30366770)

But once it's launched it's a lot of potential energy lost for ever, no?

Isn't there part of this spent fuel that could be used as fuel again? I'm thinking MOX on steroids.

Weren't surgenerators supposed to 'recycle' and reduce drastically the amount if 'final waste'? Weren't next-gen fission plants supposed to take in even higher rates of spent fuel?

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Re:A bevy of rovers heading for the Moon by Melatonic on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:04PM (#30367648)

I believe France has the types of reactors you are talking about in use - from what I remember they still do end up producing some waste though.

I feel like we should probably save the stuff just in case we end up needing it eventually in the future. Could be some aliens out there that love the stuff!

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Re:A bevy of rovers heading for the Moon by touisteur on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:38PM (#30368007)

Oh yeah, there'll always be waste but reducing it by orders of magnitude is the best waste management bet I can think of. Less mining in sketchy places too. 'my waste is my energy independence strategy' :-)

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Re:A bevy of rovers heading for the Moon by minikomi on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:49AM (#30371313)

Perhaps life on Earth was a long-con destined for us to throw our nuclear fuel out into the stars for easy harvesting

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