• ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Reprocess it, salvage useful isotopes for known uses, keep a few others for research purposes, don’t put it too far away because most of it could be useful in the future.

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        9 months ago

        France literally does that. They reprocess 96% all of their used fuel back into usable fuel and useful materials.

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          9 months ago

          The number is false. You make a confusion between what could be recycled and what is actually recycled. And MOX is not a good option (expensive, 1 cycle, toxicity).