Re: Three Mile Island

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:19:33 -0800, Jack Foy <usenet@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Doug Wickstrom <nimshubur@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Recycle it? Spent power plant fuel rods aren't _waste_ by any
reasonable definition of waste.

I was under the impression that a minority of the fission products
poison the reaction, hence how fuel rods become "spent". Not so?

Very so, which is why they are eminently recyclable.
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