Wait, what? Pu-239, U-235, and U-233 are not waste. They are fuel. Those are all fissile isotopes that we burn in conventional nuclear reactors. The isotopes y

Wait, what? Pu-239, U-235, and U-233 are not waste. They are fuel. Those are all fissile isotopes that we burn in conventional nuclear reactors. The isotopes you get rid of in cooling pools are the highly radioactive ones with short half-lives.