(11-09-2022, 06:27 PM)scouse Wrote: Spent fuel from conventional uranium fission reactors can be processed to extract the plutonium for atomic bombs. Which may be one of the reasons for their popularity... Newer technologies like fast-neutron reactors produce less waste and less plutonium I think. Use less water too - they have liquid metal coolant like sodium or lead. Or maybe thorium-cycle reactors will take off (not literally...). Controlled fusion would be good if anyone can hack it. So "nuclear" is not just one thing.
I'm guessing this sort of thing is common knowledge in Cosham, but thanks, that's interesting stuff!