Trump vil firedoble atomkraftproduksjonen i USA.
Ny/Oppfrisket teknologi skal løse avfallsproblemet.
Men mange er skeptiske, og mener teknologien ikke er sikker, og at den åpner for spredning av atomvåpen:
Trump’s nuclear ‘renaissance’ rests on risky plan for radioactive waste
The administration goes all-in on recycling spent fuel, despite a history of spectacular mishaps, including an unintentional atom bomb.
Historie India:
India fikk teknologi til å produsere atomvåpen gjennom et felles program med USA: Atoms for Peace.:
The United States largely abandoned efforts to recycle waste for civilian reactors during the Carter administration, after technology shared with India was used by that country to create its first nuclear weapon, according to Frank von Hippel, co-founder of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University. The recycling machinery the U.S. helped India build through the “Atoms for Peace” program enabled it to separate plutonium from spent reactor fuel, he said, a key step to making a bomb.
Historie UK:
The United Kingdom invested decades in a project planned to recycle uranium and plutonium for the type of next-generation nuclear reactors Curio and Oklo are now targeting.
But the new reactors did not work out as planned, beset by engineering challenges and cost overruns. And the recycling systems were constantly breaking down. By the early 2000s, it was significantly more expensive to try to recycle spent fuel in the U.K. than to dispose of it at storage facilities. As a result of the failed recycling efforts, the nation was left with one of the world’s largest stockpiles of plutonium, and no place to put it.
Skudeneshavn 22. september 2025
Jan Marton Jensen
Kilde:
22. september 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/22/trump-nuclear-waste-recycling-risk/
