Neue Teilchenbeschleuniger wandeln Atommüll in Strom um und reduzieren radioaktives Leben um 99,7 %
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/us-tech-nuclear-waste-into-power
Neue Teilchenbeschleuniger wandeln Atommüll in Strom um und reduzieren radioaktives Leben um 99,7 %
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/us-tech-nuclear-waste-into-power
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Researchers at the DOE’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are advancing two high-stakes projects aimed at optimizing Accelerator-Driven Systems (ADS).
The initiative focuses on a dual-purpose breakthrough: generating additional carbon-free electricity from spent nuclear fuel while drastically reducing its radioactive lifespan.
The projects are supported by $8.17 million in grants from the Department of Energy’s NEWTON (Nuclear Energy Waste Transmutation Optimized Now) program and represent a shift from treating used nuclear fuel as a permanent liability to viewing it as a recyclable fuel source.
This sounds like it’d be worth doing just to reduce the waste regardless of whether any useful energy would be produced. Bravo.
so we’ve been burying nuclear waste for decades panicking about it and turns out you can just… zap it and make electricity. cuts the danger window by 99.7%. genuinely insane this isn’t bigger news.
Very interesting. Years ago I won a middle school science fair for presenting my idea to bombard nuclear waster and turn it into something stable. I came up with it after watching some TLC show where they talked about how „alchemy was real“ because you could bombard one element and turn it into another.
If I understand that correctly… you have to use immense amounts of electricity to get rid of nuclear waste that is there because it was produced to generate electricity?
The ridiculous cope of the nukecels never stop to amaze me. But it‘s more sad than entertaining.
Edit: Downvoters did not read the poorly written article. LMFAO.
The question is always, does it take more energy than the energy produced.
This is great, but the nail in the coffin is the economics of fission nuclear plants. We pay billions annually to store fuel, and I don’t know that this number would decrease, even if the timeline was drastically shortened, but this is still great news.
We have had the ability to do that for 70 years now. The CANDU reactor can use nuclear waste as fuel, including cutting the radioactive life of the dangerous actinides. No one cares enough about nuclear waste to do anything about it, apparently.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor#/media/File%3ACANDU_fuel_cycles.jpg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor#/media/File%3ACANDU_fuel_cycles.jpg)