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To: Kevmo

Everything radioactive in nuclear waste can be split by neutrons in a breeder or similar reactor. The only exceptions are strontium and cesium. These have such short half-lives that they are essentially inert in 300 years.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3043099/this-nuclear-reactor-eats-nuclear-waste (intrinsically safe, my choice, but article neglects to mention the 300 year residual)

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/29/science/modern-alchemists-transmute-nuclear-waste.html (Gee, we could have started 30 years ago...)

https://www.nature.com/articles/486323b

https://newatlas.com/hitachi-reactor/33585/ (It could even be done with existing boiling water reactors)

http://transcriptvids.com/v/rv-mFSoZOkE.html (That approach doesn’t even burn the fuel, just extracts the components.)


80 posted on 02/13/2022 2:00:43 PM PST by Go_Raiders (The fact is, we really don't know anything. It's all guesswork and rationalization.)
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To: Go_Raiders

So... breeder reactors. Expensive. Perhaps not so expensive? Doubtful, or even the Chinese would be doing it. If we were to count breeder reactors into all the processing of all the nuke waste in America, it would still be very expensive, wherein natural gas and coal end up being cheaper.


81 posted on 02/13/2022 2:13:36 PM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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