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Planned Nuclear Reactors Will Destroy Atomic Waste
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!"
That is a great defeatist attitude. I guess we don't have you to thank for civil rights, women's rights and now healthcare. I mean, why bother ?
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
But you've been completely wrong, it's exactly like calling what you excrete food.
What I excrete becomes food for plants after sitting around for just one year. It's literally true in my case because my house has a septic system. My crap keeps the grass real green in a certain portion of the lawn.
One of the things about some newer designs is they are nowhere near as fussy about their fuel, so a shortage of high purity Uranium ore doesn't matter to them,
Kind of like how the grass on my lawn isn't picky about its food, either.
Shit is food, just not for people. Nuclear waste is fuel, just not for current reactors.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I love how you're agreeing with everything that he says, but in the process making yourself look both wrong, and an utter nob-jockey. Truly, old school online debating, the way Hitler used to do it.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.