• marx2k@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Nuclear: As long as you don’t care about the magic rocks once the magic has decayed to a level where they’re not boiling water anymore

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      6 hours ago

      90% of magic rocks that no longer boil wsater is magic rocks that can boil water.

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          8 minutes ago

          If you’re talking breeder reactors

          I was talking about reusing uranium from “spent” fuel, not about using plutonium. Found source that says “spent” fuel is 95-98% mix of uranium isotopes that were there. Sadly, source doesn’t say how much of each isotope, I expect very low amount of U-235. Yes, you can also use plutonium in MOX fuel, but only Russia~~, France~~ and China do that, as far as I know.

          do we have any in the US?

          Dunno. Do you? If you don’t, you can buy them from mentioned above countries.

          EDIT: France no longer has working breeder reactor? How did it happen?