The plain truth is the wet dream of fusion research pulls funding and approvals away from new, intrinsically safe fission reactors.
Not only does this mean more costly, dirty power for the foreseeable future, it also prevents today’s nuclear waste from being burned and reduced to a 5% residue that is inert in just 300 years.
:) Thank you, some sane conversation.
Yes, thank you. Our power grid needs to be protected now by reliable means of energy production. This includes more fossil fuel power plants and especially more nuclear power plants. I do not have a problem with continuing research in fusion solutions, but currently there are perverse incentives tilting the scale.
“Science” turned into a scam about 30 years ago...
5% residue that is inert in just 300 years.
***Got a link on that project? Sounds intriguing.
Here’s just one LENR project:
LENR-Induced Transmutation of Nuclear Waste
Edward Esko*
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.259.9261&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Abstract —
Quantum Rabbit (QR) research on the low-energy fusion and fission (low-energy nuclear reactions, or LENR) of various elements indicates
possible pathways for applying that process to reducing nuclear materials. In a New Energy Foundation (NEF)-funded test conducted at
Quantum Rabbit lab in Owls Head, Maine, QR researchers initiated a possible low-energy fission reaction in which 204Pb fissioned into 7Li
and 197Au (204Pb → 7Li + 197Au).1 This reaction may have been triggered by a low-energy fusion reaction in which 7Li fused with 32S to
form 39K (7Li + 32S → 19K). These results confirmed earlier findings showing apparent low-energy fusion and fission reactions.2 Moreover,
subsequent research with boron indicates apparent low-energy fusion reactions in which boron fuses with oxygen to form aluminum and
with sulfur to form scandium.3 At the same time, the QR group has achieved what appear to be low-energy transmutations of carbon using
carbon-arc under vacuum and in open air.4 The research group at QR believes these processes can be adapted to accelerate the natural decay
cycle of uranium-235, plutonium-239, radium-226 and the fission products cesium-137, iodine-129, technetium-99 and strontium-90 with
the long-term potential of reducing the threat posed by radioactive isotopes to human health and the environment