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OP specifically referred to breeder reactors, which this is not. This is a reprocessing plant which “scrapes” fuel like Pu (which is not that radioactive) and p
by suvsidhd 7y ago
OP specifically referred to breeder reactors, which this is not. This is a reprocessing plant which “scrapes” fuel like Pu (which is not that radioactive) and puts it in a normal reactor.
The nasties are all there still.
Breeders “make” their own fuel from actual waste. The US and France had reader had breeder programs, but shut them down.