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Wait wait wait wait.
Don't we already do this? Just right now we don't do it in the same reactor?
Not that I'm aware of. All our nuclear commercial power plants are just plain old nuclear energy boiling water. We're gonna use a damn Dyson Sphere to boil water......
We have bombs that use a similar starting mechanism, but they aren't exactly useful energy production.
I meant that we use neutron breeders to turn certain fuel rod waste into fissile plutonium I think.
The difference with the Chinese invention is that you don't need to transport the waste to a separate breeder.