Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "What If The United States Was Powered Entirely By Nuclear Energy?" video.

  1. Spent fuel rods being waste is wrong. It is a resource we aren't using. Carter banned reprocessing by Executive Order. That can be reversed. Also we need to put a lot more effort into fusion research. Starting with the reactor design being developed at MIT. And some of the non Tokamak designs being worked on. IMO the DOE is more interested in producing Phds than electricity. At one time the US Navy was funding alternative fusion reactor design research. For one simple reason. They wanted a design that would fit into a ship. Robert Bussard was leading that effort using Electrostatic and Inertial Confinement. Their efforts were achieving greater than expected results. Following Bussards death the research was moved to Scandia Labs. I haven't heard anything for a few years but there has been major breakthroughs in producing commercially available superconductive materials. These would allow much higher magnetic field strengths. These are also at the toot of the MIT design. The MIT design is also taking into account servicability and energy extraction.
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  2. The single biggest mistake this country made as far as nuclear power plants was not using standardized plant designs.
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