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Meyer: Natrium reactor planned for Kemmerer [Wyoming] ‘redefines nuclear energy’
(kemmerergazette.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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Fantastic. Worked so well last time round. It'll be just another white elephant that gets abandoned after a while because it turns out, the technology isn't any more viable than it was thirty years ago. And then the state will be left to deal with the horrific toxic mess it leaves behind.
You come across as triggered so I'll only add that reactors tend to operate longer than they're originally designed for. They're not "abandoned after awhile"
Don't forget, my lemon, we all want the same thing. A safe and healthy planet to live on.
Maybe you should have read the article. This is a research facility. They built a couple of those in Germany a few decades ago but they never managed to bring the technology to maturity. There is nothing to suggest it will be different this time.
How can you possibly say "Nothing has changed"? Material Science has come so far in the last 5 years, let alone the past 30 years, that I'm certain the problems experienced by other efforts will be quickly addressed
Now whether or not that means this design will be immediately commercially viable is an entirely different issue, but we can't advance forward without doing research to find out.
That's not what I said. I said there have been no fundamental breakthroughs that would indicate things will go different this time.
Yikes, you sound combative. I'm excited about the facility. Who cares that research will also be done there?
You sound like someone who can't handle people disagreeing with them.
I'm excited about this project, you do you lemon.