Guardian: New generation of nuclear reactors could consume radioactive waste as fuel

[Maslo55]

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Are they really complaining that it will take a long time to fission all the plutonium? lol.. The fact that plutonium from nuclear waste can supply our energy for such a long time is a POSITIVE, not a negative. It shows how great the energetic value of nuclear "waste" is.

The isotopes you speak of can also be transmutated by neutron radiation, they just dont produce sustainable reaction - energy (are not a fuel). Plutonium would produce enough neutrons, or energy for accelerator neutron generation, to break down all such isotopes.

Their economic calculations are also very loaded - they tried to come up with the highest sum they could, but that is additional price for 500 years of power generation - what is 8 trillion spread over 500 years, when compared to the the value of generated electricity (800 trillion KWh!)? Nothing.

Not to mention that repeating the "too cheap to meter" strawman, which has always been said in relation to fusion, not fission, casts high doubts of their knowledge about nuclear energy history.