On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:52 PM, blaze spinnaker
<blazespinna...@gmail.com>wrote:

The GeNiE Reactor is lower cost since it doesn't required enriched uranium
> and it doesn't produce hazardous nuclear waste that is costly to handle.
>

One problem with neutrons is that we want fewer of them in the world, not
more of them.  This is in part because of uranium.  If you take 238U, the
most common isotope (e.g., used in depleted uranium armor) and you add a
neutron, it will beta decay twice into fissile plutonium.

Eric

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