First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia::ATLANTA — A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has entered commercial operation, becoming the first new American reactor built from scratch in decades.
I want to do more research in Thorium reactors. They are much safer than uranium.
On meltdown issues maybe, but if it’s one of the molten salt types, they generate way more waste. Old school rods make long term storage of waste actually pretty easy
More waste maybe but it has a halflife of like 50-100 years or something.
Burning all actinides is pure scifi. Nothing close to it has ever happened.
Nor has a full fuel cycle of a thorium reactor burning the primary fuel (U233) to similar burnup levels as a traditional U235 reactor hecause the waste is so much harder to handle and the salts are so corrosive.
And “more” is relative. All the nuclear waste ever created worldwide could be stored in a single specialized facility if we were inclined to do so.
Compare against the waste generated at a single coal plant.
Now I am not suggesting this… but what would happen if you just dropped it into deepest part of the ocean?