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Re:Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. by whycome on Thursday July 10, 2025 @05:38PM (#44525902)
by vitrification you mean the radioactive material is turned into glass cubes for the storage/distro?

And yeah, that was my thought re: 'might as well get some value from it' I mean what if that heat transfer was mostly passive? So that a nuclear waste storage depot in the arctic creates some other value.

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Re:Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. by toomuchtodo on Thursday July 10, 2025 @06:33PM (#44526436)
Yep, the waste is turned into an insoluble glass product to stabilize it for long term storage.

https://www.hanfordvitplant.com/vitrification-101

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...

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