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  • You see, at some point you need a shield around the reactor to actually absorb all the high energy particles released, and turn that energy into heat.

    So we have to replace a few tons of shielding that’s lightly radioactive every 2-6 years. That’s literally a vehicle’s worth of waste to power tens of thousands of homes.