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Fuel Recycling
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Fuel Recycling
Processing of Used Nuclear Fuel
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Used nuclear fuel has long been reprocessed to extract fissile materials for recycling and to reduce the volume of high-level wastes. New reprocessing technologies are being developed to be deployed i...
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Fuel Recycling
Mixed Oxide Fuel MOX
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Mixed oxide (MOX) fuel provides about 2% of the new nuclear fuel used today. MOX fuel is manufactured from plutonium recovered from used reactor fuel. MOX fuel also provides a means of burning weapons...
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Fuel Recycling
Plutonium
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Over one-third of the energy produced in most nuclear power plants comes from plutonium. It is created there as a by-product. Plutonium has occurred naturally, but except for trace quantities it is no...
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