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IbogaProject

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3. Big issue is the waste

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Tue Aug 22, 2023, 10:07 PM

Aug 2023

And finding solutions to store it safely for tens of thousands of years. Steel doesn't last for millennia. It is a great baseline power source but the choice of Uranium instead of what the actual designers of the A-Bomb recommended which was Thorium. Only those involved with weapons production liked the Uranium reactor concept.

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DTE's Fermi 2 nuclear power plant shut down after leak detected [View all] marmar Aug 2023 OP

I'm still open to nuclear to get us off of coal. RandySF Aug 2023 #1

Agree with a few caveats... yourout Aug 2023 #2

Big issue is the waste IbogaProject Aug 2023 #3

There are reactors that will eat old waste, though BlueIn_W_Pa Aug 2023 #4