• Iron Lynx
      link
      fedilink
      37 months ago

      Even better: reprocess the fuel. The linear fuel life time decommissions nuclear fuel as useless while it still has 90-something percent of energy potential left. Having a more cyclical life cycle allows for the spent fuel to be reconstituted into new fuel, and to be used anew. All the waste that does end up being produced is only a fraction of the waste produced in a linear process, and only dangerous on a societal timescale instead of a geological one.

      • BoscoBear
        link
        fedilink
        37 months ago

        The places where that is done don’t have a great track record.

        • Iron Lynx
          link
          fedilink
          17 months ago

          I’m pretty sure France is one of those places and they have an amazing track record.