Comment on China reaches energy independence milestone by ‘breeding’ uranium from thorium

Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It is in the long term given that known uranium reserves are only good for a few hundred years of global energy requirements. Thorium is far more plentiful.

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• Dogyote@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  IIRC isn’t a good source

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Here you go in french it’s actually 96%. I don’t know if you can re-recycle it at that level the second time.

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    • Dogyote@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      No! That’s not what it fucking says. High activity waste is 0.2% of waste volume but has 96% of radioactivity.

      This is a quote from the translated article:

      Nearly 80% of the reprocessed spent fuel is not currently reused but could be reused by IV and generation reactors.

      The IV generation reactors don’t really exist yet. According to this source, maybe one or two do exist. So no, 96% of spent fuel is not being recycled. Stop spreading misinformation, you’re as useless as chatgpt.

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You have to read further, there are several “96%” in the article. Search for:

        Composés d’un assemblage d’uranium parfois associé à du plutonium, ces combustibles peuvent être traités à 96%

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      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        We’ve always been able to reuse uranium, but it was outlawed in the 70s to prevent the eventual production of plutonium.

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