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all current reactors in use are old solid fuel reactors general electric makes all their money on manufacturing fuel pellets/rods....
about a decade ago individuals became interested in discarded research of alternative nuclear research and re-discovered thorium...
thorium cannot make nuclear bombs (except plain old dirty ones maybe) the advantage is being liquid it works in a wider temp range at basically low pressure and if the reaction fails it simply solidifies and stops....it doesn't need the huge containment pressure vessel
these folks have been likened to the computer hackers of the 1970s
family members of upper Chinese ccp were given free of charge ALL of existing research papers about a decade ago and we see start-ups in china as we speak..general electric is against all this thorium stuff as no money in it for them
the reactor actually naturally breaks down thorium to uranium 232 in about a month which i beleive the other waste products can be added as fuel... thorium has a few remaining issues such as use of corrosive materials but this is seen as solvable and maybe the Chinese already have
A new place deep in the Utah mountains for the waste was built by W. Bush.
1 of the 1st things obama did was to CANCEL the opening of it.
The dems AGAIN wasting MILLIONS!
You might want to read up on how that happened. Nevada didn't want it at Yucca Mt. and Utah didn't want one either. The senators and a Utah governor made a deal.
From what I understand there isn't that much of it. Just tether it to a rocket and fly it into the sun.
In brief. More than a quarter million metric tons of highly radioactive waste sits in storage near nuclear power plants and weapons production facilities worldwide, with over 90,000 metric tons in the US alone.
Hanford Nuclear Reservation has 56 million gallons of radioactive waste held in underground tanks and solid waste buried throughout the site. An additional 25 million cubic feet of solid radioactive waste, and areas of heavy technetium-99 and uranium contaminated groundwater beneath three tank farms on the site as well as the potential for future groundwater contamination beneath currently contaminated soils.
The sheer amount at Hanford alone is mind boggling and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
FYI Elon Musk is exponentially reducing the cost per ton of transportation into space every year. It will soon be relatively cheap to launch spent nuclear fuel into outer space on a SpaceX rocket
In brief. More than a quarter million metric tons of highly radioactive waste sits in storage near nuclear power plants and weapons production facilities worldwide, with over 90,000 metric tons in the US alone.
Hanford Nuclear Reservation has 56 million gallons of radioactive waste held in underground tanks and solid waste buried throughout the site. An additional 25 million cubic feet of solid radioactive waste, and areas of heavy technetium-99 and uranium contaminated groundwater beneath three tank farms on the site as well as the potential for future groundwater contamination beneath currently contaminated soils.
The sheer amount at Hanford alone is mind boggling and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Hanford waste is military was and has nothing to do with civilian nuclear power.
"...the U.S. has produced roughly 83,000 metrics tons of used fuel since the 1950s—and all of it could fit on a single football field at a depth of less than 10 yards."
Generally, this stuff can be stored in stainless steel indefinitely. I think they are use the plastic containers as the storage in those containers is supposed to be sort and the slurry will be eventually dried out.
There are multiple solutions to used fuel from other plants, deep geologic storage or reprocessing. The issue is political.
notice how no one talks about the mutations downstream of a coolant tower in amphibians
Because there aren't any.
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