America’s Complicated Relationship With Nuclear Power
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Are We Ter With It, Waste?
We're not doing that because it's something of a political hot potato. You now, there's all these b products that are extremely radioactively hot that come from re processing um. So instead of going back in, i think the number i heard was that after the fuel is spent, 95 % of the uranium remains. We en't really found anywhere else to put this stuff. Andi you know, i'm not an expert on this aspect of it, but i know one of the big things that would cut down on the amount of waste would be if we could actually a go back an an a, re use, recycle this fuel.
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