Comment on We can do all three things at once

• Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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  • HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Start digging then

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  • Bashnagdul@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They often put it in the mine it came from. It was there long before and can stay there long after

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They often put it in the mine it came from.

      Good luck trying to convince Uranium mining countries to take it back.

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      • Bashnagdul@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, Netherlands has a contract with France for exactly that…

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    • HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It wasn’t in the same form when it came out.

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      • Bashnagdul@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        True, but when encased properly, it leaks less radioactivity then when it was in raw ore form.

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