Residents of an Ontario farm community that may become the site for a deep underground facility housing Canada’s radioactive waste were given an all-expenses-paid trip to Finland to see first hand what that future might look like.
The municipality of South Bruce has been engaged in a years-long process to decide whether it wants to become host for a $23-billion facility that aims to safely seal away Canada’s huge stockpile of nuclear waste for millennia.
I agree. All of those designs are on-paper designs though, and nothing has ever been built. We should simultaneously be investing in reactor R&D and build some of them.
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There are also newer reactor designs that can use recycled nuclear material. If we use those reactors we don’t have to mine as much fuel.
The recycling process is up to 96% efficient. https://www.orano.group/en/unpacking-nuclear/all-about-used-fuel-processing-and-recycling#:~:text=Orano expertise,turn generate their own electricity.
I agree. All of those designs are on-paper designs though, and nothing has ever been built. We should simultaneously be investing in reactor R&D and build some of them.
There are reactors built.
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/fast-neutron-reactors.aspx#:~:text=About 20 fast neutron reactors,isotope used in most reactors.