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minus-squareHubertManne@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agodon’t you have to transport the waste from the regular reactor to the breeder reactor though.
minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agotransport is a complete nonissue, this approach requires special reprocessing of spent fuel
minus-squareHubertManne@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agobut isn’t the worst stuff in the fuel in the short term? seems like the worst time to be moving it around.
minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agofreshly burned fuel is kept at nuclear powerplant spent fuel pool for months to years anyway precisely for this reason. heavy actinides have longer halflifes anyway
minus-squareHubertManne@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agodo they wait like that with this solution considering its onsite? Honestly the details are a bit sparse from what I can see.
don’t you have to transport the waste from the regular reactor to the breeder reactor though.
transport is a complete nonissue, this approach requires special reprocessing of spent fuel
but isn’t the worst stuff in the fuel in the short term? seems like the worst time to be moving it around.
freshly burned fuel is kept at nuclear powerplant spent fuel pool for months to years anyway precisely for this reason. heavy actinides have longer halflifes anyway
do they wait like that with this solution considering its onsite? Honestly the details are a bit sparse from what I can see.