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Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "Epic Tech Runs Cars u0026 Homes For 1000 Years Without Gas Or Charging?" video.
The RTGs used by NASA have a serious fuel supply problem. Due to regulatory controls, nobody is reprocessing the material. Right now, they have almost no Plutonium for the job. A far cheaper option uses a fast spectrum reactor to literally finish using the stored “waste” we have at every existing nuclear plant. Moltex and Elysium both have the tech to do it. Subject to nuclear regulatory bodies allowing any sort of progress.
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Moltex Energy is building a reactor in Canada that’s fuelled by nuclear waste. The end result is a waste with 30 years 1/2 life vs 30,000 years for the unused waste. They also get paid to take away the “waste” and every kg will generate 25 X as much as the original PWR was able to extract. This is not BS it just demonstrates the enormous energy content of nuclear fuel.
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