Reprocessing
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The term "Reprocessing Unit" is misleading as no waste will be recycled there. Basically Plutonium will be produced in such a facility. For this the spent fuel (originally the fuel consists of Uranium-235 and Uranium-238) will be transformed into three main fractions:
- remaining Uranium (ca. 95 %),
- Plutonium (ca. 1 %; created not until before operation in the reactor), and
- fission products (ca. 4 %; Caesium-137, Strontium-90, Technetium-99, Iodine-129 etc. - all created not until before operation in the reactor).[1]
Usually the Plutonium will be used for the construction of nuclear bombs or as an addition for the production of so called MOX (mixed oxides) fuel elements.[1]
Materials
- Recycling Nuclear Fuel = Plutonium Reprocessing - video of a lecture with the Canadian scientist Gordon Edwards in Finland in January 2010
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Gundremmingen drittschlimmster Atommüllschieber in die ASSE", source: http://www.umweltruf.de/news/111/news0.php3?nummer=28706, July 30, 2009
