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by quotemstr 38 days ago
What a waste of perfectly good reprocessing input. "Spent" convention nuclear fuel retains 95% of its energy. Discarding "spent" fuel is a shamefully profligate energy practice we can get away with because we're using not nearly enough nuclear power, making and virgin fissiles are dirt cheap.
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they just recently nailed converting spent fuel into tritium