Originally posted by Fraggle Rocker
It's difficult to harness the waste energy of a nuclear reactor. Radioactivity is not a form of energy that we have learned to change into a more useful form. It is pretty near the bottom of the energy "food chain", sort of a "you are this close to entropy" milepost. I have strong doubts that the idea is practical. My instincts tell me that shielding will be the only answer and, therefore, we'll still have the problem of finding a place to dump little tiny lumps of radioactive waste. [/
the latest reactors to come out of the research labs use the material till almost the last readioactive bit, leaving almost no radioactive waste, all the reastors you see littering the streets are the old school ones, built when the technology was in its infancy