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Zephyr104 t1_j584hg7 wrote

Reply to comment by that_other_goat in Successful test flight of Hydrogen-Electric Airplane could be key to zero-carbon flying. Aim for commercial 700 mile flight with 40-80 seater aircraft by 2027. by DisasterousGiraffe

Not every reactor design requires enriching of uranium or only very limited amounts of enriching. CANDU reactors for example are heavy water reactors that use very little to no enriched uranium. If anything nuclear power is great for hydrogen production as it's consistent. Perhaps not great for poorer nations but for larger nations that cause the bulk of the world's emissions let's not discount it.

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that_other_goat t1_j58b0j4 wrote

It's funny that you brought up CANDU reactors as that's the exact design India used to develop it's atomic weapons.

They produce both plutonium and tritium.

This use of what was thought to be a "safe design" for nuclear arms is the one of the major anxieties behind not using nuclear power.

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