31
Nuclear waste is reusable. Why aren’t we doing it?
(www.youtube.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2024
31 points (86.0% liked)
Videos
16379 readers
17 users here now
For sharing interesting videos from around the Web!
Rules
- Videos only
- Follow the global Mastodon.World rules and the Lemmy.World TOS while posting and commenting.
- Don't be a jerk
- No advertising
- No political videos, post those to !politicalvideos@lemmy.world instead.
- Avoid clickbait titles. (Tip: Use dearrow)
- Link directly to the video source and not for example an embedded video in an article or tracked sharing link.
- Duplicate posts may be removed
Note: bans may apply to both !videos@lemmy.world and !politicalvideos@lemmy.world
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Because of nuclear non-proloferation treaties. You can't run a "recycling" program without also being able to make plutonium for bombs.
Just let the government do it then. All nuclear waste should/must be handled and recycled by the state.
It's not like they don't have nuclear bomb or plutonium already.
Nahh duck that. Give 50 billion to some corporation to do the job.
Trust me bro, it works every time to make some dude rich
Add the '/s' for the libertarians.
But you need far more enrichment for weapons grade plutonium than you do for commercial fuel plutonium. In fact, the more we use plutonium for fuel, the less nuclear waste there will be available to potentially be recycled into weapons grade plutonium in the future. There would also be less potent waste to be stored long term which is why Japan reprocesses.
And other countries are reprocessing, including Russia and China, so I don't see how US holding back is helping non-proliferation anyway.