Re:The Race to Crack Lithium Ion Recycling
by djsumdog on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:21PM
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and we've wasted so much of our uranium making bombs that can never be used as fuel. There is research in trying to use highly enriched uranium as a fuel source, but I doubt that will ever be a safe reality.
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Re:The Race to Crack Lithium Ion Recycling
by Accujack on Monday November 30, 2020 @04:32PM
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It's the other way around. Highly enriched uranium has been easy to use as a fuel source for decades. Using less enriched material has always been a problem, actually. CANDU (Canadian design) did a pretty good job making it work, though.
Nuclear weapons didn't use much uranium, they manufactured and processed plutonium.
By the way, a lot of nuclear fuel in the past few decades has been reprocessed material from weapons that were decommissioned. I believe the US even traded with the Russians for their spare plutonium.