CLARINGTON, Ont. – Ontario Power Generation and the province are planning three more small modular reactors at the site of the Darlington nuclear power plant. One SMR is already being built the...
This is good in terms of carbon offset (better then fossil fuels); however, small form nuclear reactors create more, (currently) unmitigatable, nuclear waste. IMO it’s good stop gap, but hardly sustainable. The spent fuel rods, iirc, aren’t able to be refurbished/re-used so they’ll have to be securely stored somewhere for thousands of years until they’re safe to dispose of regularly.
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Seems to be a big day for nuclear power in Ontario.
Good news for Ontario? Is this reality?
This is good in terms of carbon offset (better then fossil fuels); however, small form nuclear reactors create more, (currently) unmitigatable, nuclear waste. IMO it’s good stop gap, but hardly sustainable. The spent fuel rods, iirc, aren’t able to be refurbished/re-used so they’ll have to be securely stored somewhere for thousands of years until they’re safe to dispose of regularly.
https://news.stanford.edu/2022/05/30/small-modular-reactors-produce-high-levels-nuclear-waste/
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2111833119
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/02/nuclear_reactors_waste/
Sabine Hossenfelder - Nuclear waste is not the problem you’ve been made to believe it is
Sabine Hossenfelder - Is Nuclear Power Green?
Elina Charatsidou - Nuclear Physicist REACTS to Sabine Hossenfelder Is Nuclear Power Green?
*I hope this is small (ha) step to procuring funding for a larger reactor or four.