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.
Finland has been “close to completing” their storage site at Olkiluoto for quite a long time now. Let’s see when they finally get it into production. I wouldn’t hold my breath.
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?
@UltraGiGaGigantic @geneva_convenience France did have a commercial scale fast breeder reactor, Superphénix.
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
