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Yeah, you could reprocess spent fuel but one of the byproducts would be plutonium. So we'd rather bury everything than using the plutonium for other projects be
by Out_of_Characte 3y ago
Yeah, you could reprocess spent fuel but one of the byproducts would be plutonium. So we'd rather bury everything than using the plutonium for other projects because of fear that we can't handle nuclear byproducts.
- phkahler 3y agoI see what you did there.
- rektide 3y agoThis was one of the advantages of Integral Fast Reactor. It had on site pyroprocessing, which doesn't have the same nuclear proliferation risks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing#Pyroprocessing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing#Pyroproce...