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Small and advanced nuclear reactors: Closing the fuel cycle?

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Small and advanced nuclear reactors: Closing the fuel cycle?

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Jack Fanning
Jack Fanning
1 month ago

Key phrases from these nuclear cheerleaders: yet to leave the drawing board, avoid the cost overruns and extended time scales, radioactive waste highly hazardous for 100s of 1000s of years, poorly understood, completely unknown in some cases, long-term solutions are yet to be developed, immobilization techniques remain immature, longer cooling times make reactor design unprofitable, SMR designs do not exist, SMR and fast breeders increase waste, uncertainty in calculations because designs, conditions and technologies unknown, disabled at great cost, significant technological difficulties and decades of R&D, challenges not communicated to investors, lack of foresight for waste management resulting in staggeringly… Read more »

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