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TY - JOUR
T1 - Small and advanced nuclear reactors
T2 - Closing the fuel cycle?
AU - Corkhill, C.
AU - Joyce, M.
AU - Lacey, D.
AU - Thrift, N.
N1 - Export Date: 22 January 2025
PY - 2025/2/28
Y1 - 2025/2/28
N2 - Small and advanced nuclear technologies are viewed as key to meeting future low-carbon dioxide energy demands. Big Tech companies are even planning to build their own nuclear reactors to power the digital revolution, including those that are yet to leave the drawing board. Building disposal solutions for the radioactive waste that these mainly novel reactors, which come with novel fuel, is essential too. Experience from 70 years of nuclear energy generation tells us that focusing on the cradle, and not adequately considering the grave of nuclear reactors, leads to significant and unconstrained costs that investors and governments might prefer to avoid.
AB - Small and advanced nuclear technologies are viewed as key to meeting future low-carbon dioxide energy demands. Big Tech companies are even planning to build their own nuclear reactors to power the digital revolution, including those that are yet to leave the drawing board. Building disposal solutions for the radioactive waste that these mainly novel reactors, which come with novel fuel, is essential too. Experience from 70 years of nuclear energy generation tells us that focusing on the cradle, and not adequately considering the grave of nuclear reactors, leads to significant and unconstrained costs that investors and governments might prefer to avoid.
U2 - 10.1080/00963402.2024.2441046
DO - 10.1080/00963402.2024.2441046
M3 - Journal article
VL - 81
SP - 43
EP - 47
JO - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
JF - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
IS - 1
ER -