Breeder reactors.
Build them.
Now.........................
Follow the money. Preparing new fuel earns somebody a fee for the processing; storing the “spent” fuel earns someone a storage fee. IIUC, France reprocesses its spent fuel for reuse. If the worthless French can do it, why can’t we?
With the rate at which they’ll selling electric cars, I think they will eventually have NO CHOICE but to do this..
I sure wish Dr. Bill Wattenburg were still alive to chime in on this.
I feel certain he would confirm everything that guy wrote.
The Earth is ending in 12 years.
Thorium Molten Salt Reactors.
We have been blending old nuclear weapons into our power plants for decades.
I knew that reactors that ate nuclear waste were a thing that we weren’t doing because of the Democrats aversion to all things nuclear. I hadn’t thought about the North Korea angle, but yeah, if he could use what he has to provide his country with energy to power a brilliant future, that would certainly go a long way toward putting the past behind them.
If there is even a hint of this getting legs the screaming of “THREE MILE ISLAND” will be begin.
God will end the world very soon.
Didn’t Hillary sell it all to the Russians?
As I recall, Jimmy Carter set this up, and was hugely applauded for it.
Jane Fonda ... The China Syndrome ... 3 mile island ... melted Greenies ... freaked out ultra-left environmental wackos ... raging Millennial fear ... lack of sufficient petting puppies and warm milk ...
Breeder reactors are not new and have been around since the dawn of nuclear power. The problem is the technology to take spent nuke waste/bombs to make power can also be reversed to take spent nuke waste/bombs to produce HIGHLY ENRICHED fuel for BOMBS. This is why breeder reactors have been banned by every civilian nuke agency around the planet outside the original nuke countries. Once you understand and master the enrichment cycle process needed for breeder reactors, you are on the path to unlimited nuke resources to make bombs...lots of bombs. Yes, it’s much better for the environment because you don’t have tons of spent nuke fuel all over the country (Fukushima anyone?), but the trade off is nuke arms race all across the 3rd world.
While the author is technically correct I would say the author is also an incompetent moron talking about something about which ramifications he obviously knows absolutely NOTHING. Pu239 is the best stuff for atomic bombs. It has the smallest critical mass of any of the bomb materials. Once you start getting loads of Pu239 produced everywhere some idiot with a towel on his head is going to steal some and blow something up.
EBR-1 at the Argonne National Lab in Idaho was the first reactor to make usable amounts of electricity. It did so in 1951. This ain’t new science. Between reprocessing and fast breeder reactors, there was never any need for Yucca Mountain. But. Politicians. That’s all you need to know.
The standing wave reactor looked good for consuming depleted plutonium.
The China Syndrome was only a figment of Jane Honda’s bank account.
Can’t we build a fast acting breeder reactor about 1,000 ft over Pyongyang?
Obama/Clinton sold all ours to the Russians.
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