Re: Three Mile Island

Doug Wickstrom <nimshubur@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

Oh, sure. (Assuming that the net energy cost of recycling fuel is lower
than that required to mine fresh fuel and store the greater volume of
waste. I suspect it is, but reprocessing can't be cheap either.)

My question was whether these extra fission products are useful for
anything at present.

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