(March 26, 2015 at 11:28 am)Stimbo Wrote: You're right that nuclear is certainly cleaner than fossil in that there's no greenhouse gases, but of course there's all that inconvenient radioactive waste to get rid of. And we'll inevitably run out of Russian agents to eat it all.
Actually, if we believe the power plant engineers, 4th generation nuclear plants will be able to use every last ounce of radioactivity from the uranium and the waste will be only inert ash...
That's a great boast, but I don't see it applied.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor