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Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by ncmncm on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:54PM (#31689110)
Vitrified waste is, despite naive assumptions, porous
Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by MertsA on Thursday June 09, 2022 @10:20PM (#31689275)
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.
Re:Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? by ncmncm on Friday June 10, 2022 @02:11AM (#31690669)
Momentarily, yes. Longer term, no.