misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoChina starts up world's first fourth-generation nuclear reactorwww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1258arrow-down112
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minus-squareqooqie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down2·11 months agoHave others been uneconomical?
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minus-squarerealitista@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 months agoSome types of reactors can also use those waste products as fuel and in turn make them into other waste products that only last a couple hundred years, so it’s not a easy calculation to make unless you know what’s deployed in the future.
minus-squareTheDarkKnight@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agoEh we’ll just dump em into the Sun someday if we start running out of space here on earth.
minus-squareMonkderZweite@feddit.chlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoIt was usually old-style (insecure) and expensive, covered with hidden funding, or new tech (somewhat secure) and even more expensive.
Have others been uneconomical?
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Some types of reactors can also use those waste products as fuel and in turn make them into other waste products that only last a couple hundred years, so it’s not a easy calculation to make unless you know what’s deployed in the future.
Eh we’ll just dump em into the Sun someday if we start running out of space here on earth.
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It was usually old-style (insecure) and expensive, covered with hidden funding, or new tech (somewhat secure) and even more expensive.