Fusion-Fission System Burns Hot Radioactive Waste

An anonymous reader writes "A hybrid fission-fusion process has been developed that can be used in some traditional fission reactors to process radioactive waste and reduce the amount of waste produced by 99%. This process uses magnetic bottle techniques developed from fusion research. This seems like the first viable solution to the radioactive waste problem of traditional nuclear reactors. This could be a big breakthrough in the search for environmentally friendly energy sources. Lots of work remains to take the concept to an engineering prototype and then to a production reactor."

Comments

Does it run under Ninnle?

[Anonymous Coward]

What is this Ninnle everybody's talking about, anyway? I can't find any links.

Developed in Texas.

[Anonymous Coward]

The oil industry there will shut them down in a heartbeat.

And thanks to the

[JamesP]

whaa whaa whaa, nucular is eeeevel, nucular is bad boo hoo people we'll keep tanning our lungs with Coal slugde and the planet will keep getting warmer

thanks guys!!! NOT!

You don't understand

[Necron69]

You don't seem to understand the environmentalist movement. Allow me to educate you:

NUCLEAR == BAD/EVIL/YUCKY

Until all of humanity lives like the Amish, we are all evil and destroying the Earth.

Thank you.

- Necron69

Yeah right!

[Anonymous Coward]

Didn't anyone notice that this press release originated in Austin TEXAS? Someone once asked a Texan what they do for entertainment on Saturday night. The response was "We sit around and make up lies."

Nuclear power is a dead end. No new nuclear plants have been built in 25 years because: no company will insure one; no investors want to take the risk (sometimes the free market IS right); if the company that built one had to pay to dispose of it after its useful life it would cost more that the value of the energy it produced; the toxic waste it produced would have to be kept under armed guard forever; etc.

Re:Mr. Fusion

[M1rth]

This seems like the first viable solution to the radioactive waste problem of traditional nuclear reactors.

No, we've had a viable solution - breeder reactors and fuel recycling - for decades. We don't use them in the States because we had that fucktard president Jimmy Carter who insisted that if the US "led by example" and didn't refine nuclear fuel, other nations would follow our lead (how'd that work out for korea, india, pakistan...?)

Sadly, Barack Obama aka Jimmy Carter 2.0 is about to do it all again... right after he finishes saying "here take my lunch money please don't beat me up" to a nuclear-armed Iran.