New tech cuts 80% of highly radioactive waste in nuclear power plants
interestingengineering.com
Swiss company Transmutex will use particle-accelerator technology to make uranium that produces less nuclear waste when used in fission reactions.

Radioactivity of nuclear waste could be reduced from thousands of years to less than 500 years.

  • skillissuer
    4·
    6 months ago

    transport is a complete nonissue, this approach requires special reprocessing of spent fuel

    • HubertManne@kbin.social
      1·
      6 months ago

      but isn’t the worst stuff in the fuel in the short term? seems like the worst time to be moving it around.

      • skillissuer
        3·
        6 months ago

        freshly burned fuel is kept at nuclear powerplant spent fuel pool for months to years anyway precisely for this reason. heavy actinides have longer halflifes anyway

        • HubertManne@kbin.social
          1·
          6 months ago

          do they wait like that with this solution considering its onsite? Honestly the details are a bit sparse from what I can see.