No mention of the energy cost of doing this? Hopefully not too much compared to the nuclear energy produced.
Is there any chance nuclear waste could be useful for something, such as creating more energy, in the future?
Is there any chance nuclear waste could be useful for something, such as creating more energy, in the future?
nuclear waste is just nuclear fuel that's very slightly used, and inconvenient to reprocess
it's still ~97% viable
After chemical separating the uranium you still have all the other nasty bits that make nuclear waste such an issue to deal with. Plus all the contaminated machinery you used to do the repressing.
but in the reduced context of fuel rod waste i stand by what i said previously
What we currently care about is the 235 which is actually burned up by the reactor down to close to the ratio in natural fuel. Reprocessing for current designs would result in most of the fuel being discarded as depleted uranium the same way the normal enrichment process works.
The actual way around this is to directly use natural uranium without enrichment via CANDU or similar design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor No need for enrichment or reprocessing.