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."

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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.