sanitation@lemmy.today to politics @lemmy.world · 18 days agoArmy to spend $2B to build nuclear microreactors at 5 bases as US seeks to ramp up nuclear powerapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down11
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minus-squaresavvie@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up6·18 days agonuclear is extremely expensive & carbon-intensive to set up
minus-squareskidicarus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·17 days agoNot to mention far more dangerous and produces waste material that we’ve decided to just bury.
minus-squarejpreston2005@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·16 days agoWe’ve developed nuclear reactors that run on that spent nuclear waste
minus-squareskidicarus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·16 days agoNot how that works. These types of reactors have other problems associated with them, but they do still produce waste material that has to be buried. They just produce less than conventional reactors.
nuclear is extremely expensive & carbon-intensive to set up
Not to mention far more dangerous and produces waste material that we’ve decided to just bury.
We’ve developed nuclear reactors that run on that spent nuclear waste
Not how that works. These types of reactors have other problems associated with them, but they do still produce waste material that has to be buried. They just produce less than conventional reactors.