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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by alex_young on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:18PM (#23471579)
> That's a red herring. The "waste" has a lot of energy remaining (otherwise, it would not be radioactive [1]). There are reactor designs that can use "waste" from current reactors as fuel.

Don't these reactors produce nuclear weapons products? Seems like that may be a reason we don't want a lot of them around.

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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by dodobirdlord on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @11:46PM (#23473699)
Rather, their fuel is plutonium. There's lots of plutonium in spent reactor fuel that can be extracted into more pure plutonium and used as fuel, but also to build nuclear weapons.
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