Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "Why It's Nearly Impossible for NASA to Reach the Sun With Current Technology" video.

  1. High level nuclear waste as in “spent” nuclear fuel has a half life of 30,000 years. It’s nasty stuff. That’s because today’s nuclear reactors extract less than 4% of the fissile energy. We have a reactor that will extract 99% of the fissile energy. There will be waste but, its half life is 30 years. All of the long life elements are fissioned into short life isotopes. That reactor is the British Moltex static salt “waste burner”. It’s undergoing homologation in Canada with the first reactor making power by 2030.
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