"Tim Streater" wrote in message
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Adam Aglionby wrote:

Not as commercial generating plants unfortunately.

They can though. Its just they are more expensive to build than a
straight uranium reactor, and no one ever had the need to use them before
other than in weapons programs.

Largely because uranium was cheap enough.

Mining isn't an issue, we have enough plutonium to keep our reactors going
for decades.
We are using plutonium as a fuel now and have been for years.