• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    there is some nuclear tech that can use nuclear waste as at least part of it’s fuel

    Those are less competitive, and salt reactor attempts have historically caused terminating corrosion problems. The SMR “promise” relies on switching extremely expensive/rare/dangerous plutonium level enriched fuel, that rely on traditional reactors for enrichment, for slightly lower capital costs.