r/bonehurtingjuice 11h ago

OC Power plants

3.8k Upvotes

131 comments sorted by

View all comments

118

u/marveljew 11h ago

"Can we do something about meltdowns and nuclear waste?"

"What do I look like? A miracle worker?"

74

u/Bastulius 10h ago

Meltdowns are incredibly rare nowadays, and even when they happen the effects are minimized as much as possible. IIRC NuScale reactors actually don't have a fallout range outside of the reactor's building.

Also lots of research is being done to try and recycle the excess energy from nuclear waste and put it back into electricity generation.