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by Schroedingersat 1110 days ago
The relevance is that fertile material is not "partially spent fuel" in any extant fuel cycle.

First it does nothing to the fission products (which are the bulk of the radioactive waste by mass). Second turning U238, Pu240, Am241, and transuranics other than Pu239 into usable fuel has never happened without being a minor side-product of neutrons from a fissile source, and using the dregs of Pu239 that is <1% of the spemt fuel and <20% ofntue waste does not reduce the radioactivity of the waste, rather it makes it more dangerous because Pu239 is significantly less harmful than the result of putting MOX in a nuclear reactor, as is regular spent uranium fuel.

Pretending otherwise is knowingly disonhest.
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Manuel_D 1109 days ago
> The relevance is that fertile material is not "partially spent fuel" in any extant fuel cycle.

Nobody was ever talking about fertile material until you brought it up. Let's re-read the relevant part in the root comment shall we?

> As pointed out in the video re-processing the fuel gets all of the usable fissile material out.

We were always talking about recovering fissile material. "Partially spent fuel" refers to fuel rods that still contain some fissile material. I have no idea where you got the idea that "partially spent material" referred to fertile material, especially when the comment you're referring to explicitly mentioned recovering fissile material.

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Schroedingersat 1109 days ago
You are attempting to insinuate that reprocessing will eliminate the nuclear waste and obviate mining new U235.

It does neither.

Stupid semantic games and motte and bailey rhetorical techniques do not change this.

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Manuel_D 1109 days ago
It will recover U235 from spent fuel and reduce the need to mine and enrich new uranium. Nobody ever suggested reprocessing somehow cheats entropy and creates unlimited energy. Can you point to where in the comment chain you feel like someone made the claim that reprocessing entirely eliminated the need to mine new uranium? It recovers a portion of otherwise wasted U235, and I don't see anyone claiming that it makes infinite energy. There's no motte and baily, your interjection about fertile vs fissile material was totally irrelevant.
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Schroedingersat 1109 days ago
> The big lie is calling it waste; "partially spent fuel" is more accurate

Which you doubled down on twice, before backpedalling and claiming you never meant that the *other* 99% of the waste wasn't waste and "partially spent" actually means "has a few leftover dregs that don't make a meaningful difference".

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Manuel_D 1109 days ago
Where did anyone in this comment chain claim that 99% of the material in spent nuclear fuel is reclaimed and reused? Recovering the "few leftover dregs that don't make a meaningful difference" are economically viable when uranium prices are high.

I'm not sure what the point is in continuing to engage with someone responding to what seems to be an entirely imaginary set of comments. Nobody in the thread is making the wild claims you seem to be trying to refute.

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Schroedingersat 1109 days ago
Very nice attempt at gaslighting, but claiming it's "partially spent fuel" and that calling it waste is a lie is like claiming shit is "partially eaten food" because you can still see a couple of corn kernels.

It's a very obvious attempt to spread the myth that reprocessing somehow magically makes the entire mass of SNF fissile and will magically make all the fission products go away.

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