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gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

So you’re going to store nuclear waste above ground for a couple of millennia?

Literally yes, it’s not just left out in the open air, they’re stored in specialized containers that use inert gas and concrete to block the radiation from getting out. They can also then be buried beneath the ground for extra protection

And thorium reactors might some day become a viable technology. But that is at best decades away.

It is most certainly not decades away at best unless fear mongering managed to slow research more than it already has done, but that’s not an issue with the technology at all

And what about all those old and aging legacy reactors that are being kept running beyond their design lifespan? Surely nothing can go wrong there.

You update them, which is how they’re operating beyond their initial designed lifespan. Current idea in the field is to replace aging uranium reactors with molten thorium as they’re apparently pretty simple to convert over

To quote you on this topic:

you just show how little you understand the subject matter

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