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One thing this doesn't really address is that the way you separate plutonium from uranium is via acid. At the end of the process, you have a barrel of radioacti
by VonGuard 3y ago
One thing this doesn't really address is that the way you separate plutonium from uranium is via acid. At the end of the process, you have a barrel of radioactive acid to deal with. Not nice stuff to handle. Toxic AND corrosive waste.
- acidburnNSA 3y agoThe pyrometallurgical methods of separation are a bit nicer. Way less liquid waste than Gen 1 WW2-era separations like PUREX. https://www.ne.anl.gov/pdfs/12_Pyroprocessing_bro_5_12_v14[6].pdf https://www.ne.anl.gov/pdfs/12_Pyroprocessing_bro_5_12_v14[6...