Reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel involves dissolving or melting the fuel to separate uranium and plutonium for recycling into new fuel assemblies, while solidifying fission products for disposal.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: Congressional Research Service
  Nuclear Energy and Climate Change Mitigation

Sources

• Nuclear Energy and Climate Change Mitigation www.everycrsreport.com Congressional Research Service via serper

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• spent nuclear fuel concept
• uranium concept