Reply to post: What a waste of "waste"

Britain is sending a huge nuclear waste shipment to America. Why?

Arthur the cat Silver badge

What a waste of "waste"

This stuff is a useful source of energy if handled right. The epithermal variants of fourth generation nuclear reactors should all be able to use what we now call waste as fuel for power generation. IIRC there's ~100 years of our current electricity usage available from "spent" fuel rods used in once through mode. What it needs is a government with the balls to actually try out an experimental Gen IV reactor. Molten salt looks the most likely design as it's been around since the 50s and is known to work(*). Then whoever does it can charge the world a fortune for taking their "waste" and generate electricity from it.

(*) It worked for power generation, but not for making weapons, which is why the design was never used other than in experimental form.

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