Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift

Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift by nine_k on Thursday December 22, 2022 @05:57PM (#34100060)

I thought that the main problem with the breeder reactor design is the proliferation risk, because they also produce (and can burn) plutonium usable for building a bomb.

I frankly think that these considerations are exaggerated in countries which already have nuclear bombs (like USA, Russia, China, France, UK, India, Pakistan, Israel,..). Japan does not have a nuclear arsenal, but, frankly, a normal nuclear power plant can also produce plutonium, maybe only somehow more visibly, so Japan might have built nuclear warheads on a year or so, had they decided to do so (and violate their Constitution).

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Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift by panick21_ on Thursday December 22, 2022 @06:24PM (#34100345)

No the problem was that 'proliferation risk' was used by the enemies of nuclear to oppose all these programs and get them canceled. Even when the main use of those reactors would have been to consume the nuclear waste from the existing PWR reactors demostically.

But sure lets kill a great program to build next generation reactors and solve the 'nuclear waste' 'problem' by preventing that.

Just another one of the many ways the public opposition to nuclear has prevented all the progress.

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