Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
without leaving behind hazardous waste
By volume blanket reprocessing and neutron activated vessel components create more hazardous waste than fission could dream of (not including the nightmare of on site fuel reprocessing for breeders that are similarly pie in the sky)
vimmiewimmie@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
Hello. Sorry, I couldn’t find an immediate source when I did a web search with the text you quoted. Do you have a source for it you could share, or recall when you saw it?
Thanks!
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s not a quote, just a reality for non-existent blanket recycling technology and dealing with neutron energies that far exceed anything fission produces in slow neutron reactors.
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I understand there’s no waste with a half life >100 years, and the activated steel can be recycled a few decades after commissioning?
www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/…/El-Guebaly SESE-KN-2.pdf
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s not particularly long but it’s very much in Superfund abandonment territory when you look at the economics of that “recycling” of low grade radioactive waste.