Sentences with phrase «plutonium with radioactive waste»
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The issue concerns what to do with radioactive waste after uranium and plutonium have been recovered from spent nuclear fuel using reprocessing methods such as Plutonium Uranium Redox EXtractionplutonium have been recovered from spent nuclear fuel using reprocessing methods such as Plutonium Uranium Redox EXtractionPlutonium Uranium Redox EXtraction (PUREX).
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The U.K. is considering a plan to build two of General Electric's PRISM fast reactors, the latest in a series of fast - reactor designs that for several decades have attempted with mixed success to handle plutonium and other radioactive waste from nuclear power.
The report recommended two options that fulfilled this objective: the consumption of plutonium in MOX fuel and the immobilization of plutonium with high level radioactive waste (HLW).
Proliferation is less of an issue with the once - through cycles, however, since the resultant plutonium stays embedded with other highly radioactive wastes.
An estimated 50 million gallons of liquid wastes from Cold War plutonium production processes - laced with radioactive caesium and strontium salts - were dumped in a 13.7 sq. mile area south of central Hanford's 177 underground radioactive waste tanks.