Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’
ameancow@lemmy.world 4 days agoWe need to store the waste for thousands of years. This is bad.
I feel like you didn’t read my comment and just wanted to talk about thorium. Which is fine, yes I know it generates less waste and creates its own fuel and all that, I am speaking about nuclear waste as we know it right now, from our hundreds of traditional power plants, the things that MOST people associate with dangers of nuclear waste. Which I explained is not even remotely the problem people think it is, because those thousands of years pass in a blink of an eye deep under earth’s crust.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah but traditional nuclear power can be with much less waste which has a much shorter half life if we recycle the waste, is my point. Less than 100 years instead of thousands. But the recycling process which dates from the 70’s is banned because the process also provides a tiny bit of enriched uranium.
So I’m not against traditional nuclear power, I think we can do much better if we recycle, plus Thorium reactors are a good addition.