Your objections to
current nuclear fission technology are valid — in fact, they make the «nuclear option» politically impossible today.
Not exact matches
Dubbed the compact fusion reactor (CFR), the device is conceptually safer, cleaner and more powerful than much larger,
current nuclear systems that rely on
fission, the process of splitting atoms to release energy.
We both talked about how
nuclear power especially Thorium - based
nuclear power could be a solution for future power needs that would provide a stable base electrical grid while at the same time having far fewer problems than the
current fission products based on uranium and plutonium.
Current technology includes
nuclear fission, which is more than capable of dealing with global energy needs, and at costs lower than fossil — IF it were only deployed.
They outline the need to reduce demand but also to build large - scale infrastructure in the form of concentrated solar power, fourth - generation
nuclear fission and high - voltage direct
current transmission.
In particular, advanced reactor design involves «eating»
nuclear waste from
current fission reactors, thus strongly reducing
nuclear waste and proliferation problems.
Replacement of the
current thermal variety of
nuclear fission reactors with
nuclear fission fast reactors, which are 100 times more fuel efficient, can dramatically extend
nuclear fuel reserves.
Keep the
current fission nuclear power running and replace oil, coal and gas with more wind and solar.