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Every other nuclear power reprocesses their waste into fuel. The reason the US doesn't is partly nimby-ism and partly strategic, waste contains plutonium and i
by kiujhgtfghjk 16y ago
Every other nuclear power reprocesses their waste into fuel.
The reason the US doesn't is partly nimby-ism and partly strategic, waste contains plutonium and if we need to make more nukes to fight the commies we will be glad we didn't reprocess it all.
- patrickyeon 16y agoCANDU doesn't chemically re-process it (no purification). It just physically breaks it up into fuel rods that it can use. A CANDU reactor can run on unprocessed, raw (just-pulled-it-out-of-the-ground) uranium, which light water reactors cannot do without chemical reprocessing.