| HappySqurriel said: What are your thoughts on thorium reactors, which only has about 100 grams of waste for every ton of thorium they burn; and this waste only exists for a couple hundred years? |
Are thorium reactors the same thing as those Breeder plants? If so, I remember a talk by Bill Gates about how they can actually use the waste from old nuclear plants to generate electricity, and how by using the waste generated by the old plants, they could power the USA for about 200 years (which, I'm guessing, is the most optimistic value, but still very good).
If so... if they can provide so much energy, and the resource they require to do so is basically the waste that we currently don't know what to do with... why haven't we started building them, yet? Or is it all still theory?
