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by seanflyon 4353 days ago
Dealing with waste is also a major problem with most kinds of nuclear reactors. Safely dealing with spent fuel is expensive. For example, the largest meltdown in Fukushima was in a spent fuel storage pool.
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Fast reactors and liquid thorium reactors would produce about one percent as much waste for the same amount of energy.