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Originally posted by Moses
China is building 30 cutting-edge nuclear pebble reactors. Helium cooling, virtually melt down proof. Amazing technology. The spent fuel (rdioactive waste) is mixed in heavily leaded glass blocks. The only possible exposure is from the surfaces of the block. Even if the block is fractured, the surface area is only slightly increased and there is no wholesale environmental threat. The blocks can be safely buried. They are seismically stable.
By the time we get short of uranium, we will have fusion reactors.
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30 reactors will not do crap. We need 2000 reactors to supply our needs and growth for the next ten years. As far as fuel is concerned, we have enough refined for a long time.
I think we have enough for 40,000 weapons. The Former Soviet Union has something like enough for 100,000 weapons. We have stockpiles of weapons grade and there is only one way to truely get rid of it. Burn it in a nuclear reaction.