• Tak@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        These are literal nuclear weapons and waste from refining to make them. It literally sits in a parking lot in Tennessee

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          9 months ago

          I don’t think that’s right. The page clearly states “Nuclear reprocessing is the chemical separation of fission products and actinides from spent nuclear fuel.”

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            9 months ago

            You’re still missing the point but I’m not going to try to convince you that plutonium isn’t a spent fuel if you believe that.

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              9 months ago

              But yes please try to convince me and the readers. That’s how discussion work.

              “3% of the mass consists of fission products of 235U and 239Pu (also indirect products in the decay chain); these are considered radioactive waste or may be separated further for various industrial and medical uses.”

              Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spent_nuclear_fuel