Residents of an Ontario farm community that may become the site for a deep underground facility housing Canada’s radioactive waste were given an all-expenses-paid trip to Finland to see first hand what that future might look like.
The municipality of South Bruce has been engaged in a years-long process to decide whether it wants to become host for a $23-billion facility that aims to safely seal away Canada’s huge stockpile of nuclear waste for millennia.
I agree. All of those designs are on-paper designs though, and nothing has ever been built. We should simultaneously be investing in reactor R&D and build some of them.
There are reactors built.
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/fast-neutron-reactors.aspx#:~:text=About 20 fast neutron reactors,isotope used in most reactors.