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Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift by panick21_ on Thursday December 22, 2022 @08:11PM (#34101161)
Not really the case. With reprocessing of current waste more fuel could be made easily.

And we could find more U-235 if demand really went up.

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Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift by pfdietz on Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:18PM (#34101632)
Reprocessing of thermal burner reactor fuel causes only a marginal extension of the uranium resource.

What would be needed are breeder reactors operating with a breeding ratio > 1. Otherwise, the vast majority of the 238U cannot be used.

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