Engineer wrote: I think the idea of government money use for research outside of defense is indefensible. It is time for government to focus on fission fuel reprocessing and conversion to short half life isotopes.
And how are they going to do that without spending money on nondefense research? Do you mean maybe they should perhaps spend more money on perfecting an unproven technology such as LFTR reactor technology which we can use to use up all the spent fuel? Or do only you have one solution to promote? Without some new technology we are going to remain dependant on fossil fuels which I personally believe is “indefensible.”
