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MakeLimeade9 karma

My understanding is there's two ways to reuse fuel that is spent enough to not be suitable to power a reactor, but doesn't have the uranium used up.

  1. Chemically reprocess it. Problem with this is that it is more expensive than mining new uranium, so it's not done.
  2. Use breeder reactors, especially molten salt reactors to reuse the uranium. Problem with this is breeder reactors can actually make enriched uranium and plutonium suitable for nuclear reactors. I think this currently isn't allowed by treaty, but I'd expect changing that wouldn't be too hard. There's no interest in additional nuclear weapons at this point, except by rogue countries.

MakeLimeade8 karma

I wasn't suggesting you actually add the wifi or bluetooth or SDHD.

It might be possible to simply add a trace to holes or a pad which someone can use to read what's needed and add it themselves. Having unused components are actually quite common. But only if your circuit has something that can be read/interpreted.

I understand if the board is already designed though.

MakeLimeade7 karma

Could you look into adding some kind of connection that will let a computer or arduino-type microcontroller read the current value? Even having holes/pads on the board to that could be soldered with the necessary connection would help.

Then wifi and SD could easily be added aftermarket.

MakeLimeade6 karma

For those who understand nuclear power, the potential and the issues, I do think there's consensus.

Unfortunately general consensus probably isn't there because not everyone is informed about how safe nuclear is.

For starters we have enough partially spent nuclear fuel rods to power the country for the next 100 years if we reprocessed them.

MakeLimeade2 karma

Why even bother then? Seems like a huge pain, super expensive, and no hope of scaling.