[UncleOxidant]

Aren't there newer nuclear technologies that use alternative fissionable materials that have much shorter half-lives?

[loeg]

To risk oversimplifying: the really harmful stuff has very short half-lives, and the stuff with long half-lives isn't especially harmful.

[eecc]

If you’re referring to Thorium and pebble bed, they’re both not proliferation safe and have their issues with ecological confinement of highly active waste.

So unfortunately they never managed to overcome the initial “should we even seriously try it” cost/benefit analysis

[andbberger]

is the oil lobby performing the cost benefit analysis.

because...