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Originally Posted by sendler
Newer Gen 3+ reactor designs have improvements in place to prevent such events. And are now stated to be passively walk away safe. Gen 4 MSR reactors will be fool proof if we ever wake up and allow their development.
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You don't have to convince me.
The Hollywood movie educated public needs to be reassured on anything nuclear and our stuck in the cold war era department of Energy needs to be convinced to finish what they started with thorium.
To the government recycling nuclear waste isn't worth it unless they can make nuclear weapons out of it.
Apparently reducing the waste volume by around 95% and cutting the time it's dangerous from thousands of years to under 100 years aren't good enough reason to recycle it.
Right now the main use for thorium is my tungsten welding electrodes and people are even becoming afraid of the tiny, nearly undetectable amount of radiation they give off.
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