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Planned Nuclear Reactors Will Destroy Atomic Waste

Posted by Soulskill on from the but-where-will-we-get-our-superheroes dept.

separsons writes "A group of French scientists are developing a nuclear reactor that burns up actinides — highly radioactive uranium isotopes. They estimate that 'the volume of high-level nuclear waste produced by all of France’s 58 reactors over the past 40 years could fit in one Olympic-size swimming pool.' And they're not the only ones trying to eliminate atomic waste: Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin are working on a fusion-fission reactor. The reactor destroys waste by firing streams of neutrons at it, reducing atomic waste by up to 99 percent!"

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  1. Will corporation making promise guarantee it? by leftie · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Will the corporation trying to sell this reactor design guarantee it's promises will be backed up with real cash?

    Fuck NO! Not one has. Not one corporation has stood behind a reactor it built through decommissioning. They spin off the property the reactor sits on to a subsidiary, and let spun off subsidiary go bankrupt.

    Every damn one of these power utilities that has built a nuclear reactor has abandoned the reactors along with and the cost for decommissioning the reactors on the US Federal Government.

  2. Will Corporation making promise guarantee it by leftie · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Will the corporation trying to sell this reactor design guarantee it's promises will be backed up with real cash.

    NO! Not one has. Not one corporation has stood behind a reactor it built through decommissioning. They spin off the property the reactor sits on to a subsidiary, and let spun off subsidiary go bankrupt.

    Every damn one of these power utilities that has built a nuclear reactor has abandoned the reactors along with and the cost for decommissioning the reactors on the US Federal Government.