My knowledge about school level physics is admittedly not that fleshed out, but we were told that it is possible to convert mass to energy. My google-fu has sadly left me for my question here 🙁
So why can’t we just take e.g. nuclear waste and convert it to energy? After that so is my understanding it wouldn’t simply exist as matter anymore and wouldn’t require to store dangerous trash if you can convert it all to energy.
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Short answer is yes, there’s a different nuclear reactor that can do it.
There’s a few different ways to make nuclear energy, each uses different fuel and creates different types of waste. If you want to look up more, check out molten salt reactors
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