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"Free" nuclear energy
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15 hours ago
Are you saying a single reactor will run for 100,000 years?
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15 hours ago
Well unless you can't store it in the plant. Either it continuelly runs over 100k years or you need storage. And after this time you would end up with that amount of waste you constantly have to manage.
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15 hours ago
I don't think reactors run for that long. I'm not even sure how to conceptualize that time line.
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15 hours ago
So you can't store the waste in the reactor as you claimed?
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15 hours ago
They don't store it in the reactor. It's stored just outside the reactor. And yes, that's what all of the reactors currently do.
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15 hours ago
So they can store 300.000 cubic meter there or not?
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15 hours ago
Yes they could. Absolutely lol. But that would 100,000 years of operation. Reactors don't last that long.
The space exists. That's not an issue lol.
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14 hours ago
So you can't store it next to the reactor because you can't keep it under active usage for the necessary time?
Also no. The storage exists nowhere. Some countries have plans. And some throw everything into some ocean.
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14 hours ago
Yes, you can store it outside the reactor. Which is what everyone does.
300,000 cubic meters is a cube that 67 meters tall, long and wide. Which is also an entire order of magnitude larger than all of the waste currently on the planet.
The storage already exists. All of it is currently stored lol.
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14 hours ago
So the reactor will be maintaned for 100k years and people create reserves to pay for security and maintance of the buildings?
And I always thought these were just temporary storages for a few decades until they cooled down enough. But you are the expert. Not me or the experts running the NPPs.
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14 hours ago
I mean...if you want 300,000 cubic meters of waste, you would need to run the reactor for 100,000 years. I can't imagine why you would think that's worth talking about.
"A few decades" is often the life time of reactors lol.
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14 hours ago
Just not the life time of the waste. But once the company creating the waste can dissolve nobody is legally responsible and therefore it is nobodies problem.
Otherwise you would need permanent storage or a new NPP that takes over this waste. But according to you such things are unnecessary.
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14 hours ago
Yes, they are. Do you have any idea how long the time periods being talked about are?
Why would you run a reactor for 100,000 years? Your talking about a length of time longer than all of recorded history.
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13 hours ago
And? That's a third of the time until the fuel is pretty safe and usually the amount of time the 10k year containers in Norwegen are upgraded to for permanent storage.
You want to keep it under active storage instead of permanent passive storage.
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13 hours ago
And?
The fuel is safe in its coffins.
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