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DennisP on Dec 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thorium

The point is, we have a lot of nuclear waste right now that needs containment for 10,000 years. Put it through liquid thorium reactors (or integral fast reactors) and you reduce the amount of waste by a couple orders of magnitude, while reducing the timeframe to 300 years. Do you have a better plan for it?

danielweber on Dec 12, 2012 [–]

France seems to do okay by recycling it.

Of course it's cheaper to just toss the old stuff somewhere and dig up fresh uranium.

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