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It's cheaper to dig up and refine uranium ore instead so the economics don't make sense.
by cinntaile 5y ago
It's cheaper to dig up and refine uranium ore instead so the economics don't make sense.
- adament 5y agoDoes this remain true if the waste producers were forced to factor in the “true” storage cost of the waste?
- Retric 5y agoVery much so, spent fuel contains almost as much uranium and in the same U235:U238 ratio as natural uranium it doesn’t need any special handling on it’s own. The issue is everything else in the fuel. After chemical separating the uranium you still have all the other nasty bits that make nuclear waste such an issue to deal with. Plus all the contaminated machinery you used to do the repressing.