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China starts up world's first fourth-generation nuclear reactor(www.reuters.com)

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viking@infosec.pub
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Not at all, but long term storage of exhausted nuclear rods still costs an unknown amount of money endless centuries into the future. So you can’t really put a number on the final bill.

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TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world
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Eh we’ll just dump em into the Sun someday if we start running out of space here on earth.

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viking@infosec.pub
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That has been suggested for decades, problem is that if any of the transporters blow up on their way to space, you essentially have a dirty bomb covering half the planet. No bueno.

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realitista@lemm.ee
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Some types of reactors can also use those waste products as fuel and in turn make them into other waste products that only last a couple hundred years, so it’s not a easy calculation to make unless you know what’s deployed in the future.

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