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Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel (www.reuters.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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FORSMARK, Sweden, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Sweden started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel on Wednesday, only the second such site in the world, where highly radioactive waste will be stored for 100,000 years.

How to store deadly radioactive waste until it is safe is a question that has dogged the nuclear industry since commercial reactors began operating in the 1950s.

Finland is the only country close to completing a permanent storage site.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Not a scientist or anything, but from what I've read there are already reactors that use this waste developed. Why aren't we using those reactors? Do they also leave waste behind?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

@UltraGiGaGigantic @geneva_convenience France did have a commercial scale fast breeder reactor, Superphénix.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To my knowledge there exists exactly one reactor in china, and this is a test project. We know very little about it. I have seen many many talks in the last 10ish years but for such a "break trough idea" very very little actual physical proof for any of the big claims.

Edit: Wikipedia article of said reactor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMSR-LF1