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Lots of little nuclear reactors...Thoughts?
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/27/texas-small-nuclear-reactors-power/
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Lots of little nuclear reactors...Thoughts? (Original Post)
NowsTheTime
Mar 27
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(52,243 posts)1. My first thought:
NowsTheTime
(690 posts)2. My reaction: Lots of targets for those who shoot at electric grid stations
Think. Again.
(8,164 posts)3. Still leaves the question of what to do with the waste...
...but that waste is still less of an immediate danger than the CO2 we're emitting.
NowsTheTime
(690 posts)4. All the years we have tried, we still store nuclear waste at the plants..
Think. Again.
(8,164 posts)5. Yeah, no matter where we put it, it's dangerous...
...I've read a little bit about re-using it to squeeze out more of the radioactivity or something but there just doesn't seem to be enough interest in figuring all that out.
SWBTATTReg
(22,130 posts)6. We have lots of nuclear powered subs and ships, so small is already here. As to the waste material,
that's always been an issue in storage/dispersal of waste products.