Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high?
by ncmncm on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:54PM
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Vitrified waste is, despite naive assumptions, porous
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Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high?
by MertsA on Thursday June 09, 2022 @10:20PM
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Er, but it's still vitrified and stable as a glassy material that's less prone to leaching fission products into any water right? As far as I understand it, the whole point of vitrifying it is to trap anything and everything aside from Xenon and Tritium into the vitrified end product.