Eli5 why can’t radioactive waste be used again? Why is it waste?
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The uranium splits into a wide variety of elements but elements created this way all have the wrong number of neutrons and so are all radioactive.
So you end up with a mixture of tons of different stuff that is all mixed together and is all deadly.
You can use it again but for what? It won’t create the heat that uranium does by itself so it is useless unless an amazing amount of money is spent to get it ready for something and for that much money, you could just buy solar panels or something.
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