A Second Life: The Potential of US Nuclear Waste Recycling Technology

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The standard nuclear fuel cycle in the US is "once-through": uranium fuel is used once, then stored as waste. But this discards over 95% of the potential energy remaining in the spent fuel. US nuclear waste recycling technology (reprocessing) can separate usable materials (plutonium, uranium, minor actinides) from fission products, reducing the volume and long-term toxicity of...

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