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From: Mike Van Pelt <usenet@mikevanpelt.com>
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In article <vd7m9n$uguu$1@dont-email.me>,
Peter Fairbrother  <peter@tsto.co.uk> wrote:
>On 28/09/2024 01:50, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> On 9/27/2024 3:55 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:
>>> I'd love to see more work done on thorium reactors.
>>>
>> That _sounds_ like an obvious answer to I have to ask what the catch is.
>
>No great catch, except that thorium reactors have been massively 
>over-hyped.
....
>Less radioactive waste? Long-term waste is pretty much the same. Claims 
>for less short-term waste are ... disputable.

It's actually the opposite.  In general, short term waste
(the really hot stuff) is fission products; the long term
waste (weakly radioactive)** is mostly transuranics.

Thorium reactors don't have a path to transuranics.  It's
all fission products. 

** Or in the case of plutonium, just radioactive enough to be
a serious concern but not radioactive enough to have a short
half-life in human terms, but plutonium should never be going
into the waste stream anyway; it's fuel.
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