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- Mon Aug 15, 2016 7:10 pm
- Forum: Development Proposals
- Topic: Electric energy
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Re: Electric energy
That is... not how current nuclear tech works. A standard real-world light water reactor burns a fairly small fraction of its input fuel (something like 80%); the remaining is either reprocessed or discarded. Note that that's only the U-235 that's used; ~95% of the total material is U-238 that is ...