@designatednerd@mastodon.social
2026-04-24 19:00 UTC
@SeanMcTex it seems like these are a lot less potentially dangerous than full size reactors in terms of meltdown potential, but have they figured out what to do with the spent fuel beyond “shove it down a mountain in Nevada and walk away whistling nonchalantly”?
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@SeanMcTex@urbanists.social 2026-04-27 17:15
@designatednerd Great question. From what I understand, while the fuel itself is less volatile than that in large-scale reactors, the "hey, you _really_ might not want to go near that mountain over there" approach to long-term disposal is still pretty much the state of the art. So, perhaps "clean" was a bit of a overstatement on my part. (Still, better than many of the current alternatives!)