Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Why is FRANCE betting on NUCLEAR ENERGY again? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

Sending stuff to the Sun requires large amounts of energy.
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No, you can't do that cheaply and it would also be dangerous.
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@SmokWawelski4D Fast breeders were abandoned for technical and economic reasons, not political ones. They often had issues like leakages that led to long interruptions in production. In France there was a fast breeder named Superphénix that produced electricity commercially. However, the issues I mentioned caused its capacity factor to be under 8% (!) while many regular nuclear plants achieve over 90% capacity factor. Fast breeders just seem to be too difficult to make economically viable (even though they're demonstrably technically possible).
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@SmokWawelski4D To my knowledge, Superphénix wasn't a research reactor but a prototype commercial reactor. Granted, subsequent non-prototype reactors could possibly be more reliable but more conventional reactors have remained commercially more viable. Also, one of the reasons alternative reactor types like fast breeders were investigated was a fear over uranium supplies running out. However, new deposits have been found and arms reduction has resulted in militaries contributing less to uranium demand and also many decommissioned weapons have been turned into nuclear fuel for commercial use. All this has made uranium cheap and likely to remain like that in the near future which has weakened the commercial case for fast breeders (and to some degree thorium reactors). Conventional reactors are both easier and mature making it difficult for more exotic reactor types to compete.
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