hybrid reactor Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:44:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Fusion-Fission Hybrid Reactor: Getting Rid of 99% Nuclear Waste Cleanly https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fusion-fission-hybrid-reactor-20090128/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fusion-fission-hybrid-reactor-20090128/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:44:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=1893 The main problem with nuclear power is that it leaves radioactive residues behind; otherwise, it would be the almost perfect solution for our energetic and climate crises. The almost-perfect solution comes from the physicists at the University of Texas at Austin, who created a way to "use fusion to relatively inexpensively destroy the waste from nuclear fission".

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