The Navy has reprocessed spent nuclear fuel for decades. It's been an integral part of their plans for maintaining their nuclear-powered vessels since the beginning. It only came to a stop because Obama outlawed the practice because it 'encourages proliferation'.
Reprocessing of commercial, civilian reactor fuel was stopped under Ford and Carter, restarted under Reagan, and stopped again under Obama.
All used nuclear fuel can be reprocessed and re-used.
Doing so reduces the half-life of the remaining byproducts massively. What can't be reused as nuclear fuel is 99.9% free of radiation within 40 years, rather than the 10k+ of actual uranium or plutonium-laden spent fuel rods.
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Reprocessing of commercial, civilian reactor fuel was stopped under Ford and Carter, restarted under Reagan, and stopped again under Obama.
All used nuclear fuel can be reprocessed and re-used.
Doing so reduces the half-life of the remaining byproducts massively. What can't be reused as nuclear fuel is 99.9% free of radiation within 40 years, rather than the 10k+ of actual uranium or plutonium-laden spent fuel rods.
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.