• alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    There’s both, there was a plant in Savanah Ga that was supposed to process nuclear weapons into fuel, but after they got the weapons, they stalled on building the plant.

    There were other plans to build reprocessing facilities for old fuel in the US (or breeder reactors that can use them as is) that all died off after the fall of the USSR opened up kazakstan, tanking the price of Uranium.

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      9 months ago

      I’m glad you followed what I was trying to say. I’m not sure why they’re so hard stuck on the spent fuel and not the perfectly viable fuel that is considered waste because it’s too enriched.