UK ‘can harness radioactive waste for energy’ after tech breakthrough

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1. Having grown up with all the videos about dirty bombs and the risks of nuclear proliferation – there’s going to need to be convincing security in place before we go about spreading radioactive materials across thousands of micro reactors.

   Its one thing policing a small number of very large nuclear power stations and their convoys. But how does this policing scale?

2. Ah, tech bros once again reinventing something they didn’t know existed.

   Because we’ve had breeder reactors for decades.

3. Honestly, the majority of the telegraph is just bs pretending to be news. Why people bother with this outlet anyway

4. What the plutonium they’ve been clear for two decades they’re never letting be used for anything. Molten salts not appropriate for the UK, it’s far too far behind the curve to be useful and doesn’t align with the UK nuclear industry base. 

5. People here need to be more positive.

   It’s not mentioned in the article but the breakthrough is the end of a 7 year validation process done in collaboration with the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories. The Science isn’t brand new that’s correct but it takes a long time to implement. Experts have told the British government we can apply the process to the existing stockpiles of nuclear waste. Seems promising to me.

6. This isn’t a tech breakthrough, it’s tech people have been ignoring for decades.

7. Maybe they can. It’ll take years to get this off ground with the regulatory process.

8. As dumb as this article is I’d rather it spread and suddenly everyone thinks waste is fine because we can recycle it than the current status quo of waste=glowing green gloop of death that will kill us all

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