Eli5 why can’t radioactive waste be used again? Why is it waste?
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So from what I understand IFR (Integral fast reactors) can do this. I encourage you to take a look a the wiki page, but here’s the jist.
> The primary argument for pursuing IFR-style technology today is that it provides the best solution to the existing nuclear waste problem because fast reactors can be fueled from the waste products of existing reactors as well as from the plutonium used in weapons, as is the case in the operating, as of 2014, BN-800 reactor. Depleted uranium (DU) waste can also be used as fuel in fast reactors.
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