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'''Used nuclear fuel''' (often called '''spent nuclear fuel''') is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a [[nuclear reactor]] (usua

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**Dan Yurman (2022) Stanford's Questionable Study on Spent Nuclear Fuel for SMRs, [https://neutronbytes.com/2022/05/31/stanfords-questionable-study

...fission products are contained in the rod. This means a smaller volume of Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF). Rods are easy to identify and count, which may be advantageous in pr ...waste flows for reactors of various types, we need to distinguish between Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) that goes to [[Nuclear_waste_management|Interim Storage]] and High Le

...>“Over the last 40 years, thousands of shipments of commercially generated spent nuclear fuel have been made throughout the United States without causing any radiologica ...a molten chloride salt fast reactor with no moderator, capable of burning spent nuclear fuel and bomb cores.<ref>Elysium Industries MCSFR - Ed Pheil, the designer, spea

...>“Over the last 40 years, thousands of shipments of commercially generated spent nuclear fuel have been made throughout the United States without causing any radiologica [[Fast neutron reactor|Fast Neutron Reactors]] (FNRs) are capable of burning spent nuclear fuel, old bomb cores, depleted uranium, and

From ''600 year old spent nuclear fuel is just another poison'', Jack Devanney, 13 Jan 2023, [https://jackdevanney ...s can be contact handled without any shielding at all. After year 600, the spent nuclear fuel must be swallowed in order to do any damage."

...Partnership]], is a U.S. plan to form an international partnership to see spent nuclear fuel reprocessed in a way that renders the plutonium in it usable for nuclear fu ===Spent nuclear fuel===

* FNRs are capable of burning spent nuclear fuel, old bomb cores, depleted uranium, and thorium.<ref>[https://www.youtube.co Given the current inventory of spent nuclear fuel (which contains the plutonium), it is possible to treat this waste material

* FNRs are capable of burning spent nuclear fuel, old bomb cores, depleted uranium, and thorium.<ref>[https://www.youtube.co Given the current inventory of spent nuclear fuel (which contains the plutonium), it is possible to treat this waste material

...ither [[Nuclear reprocessing|reprocess]] or dispose of [[used nuclear fuel|spent nuclear fuel]]. If spent fuel is not reprocessed, the fuel cycle is referred to as a ''o ...e risk in transporting highly radioactive materials, containers known as [[spent nuclear fuel shipping cask]]s are used which are designed to maintain integrity under no

...ther than the tens of thousands of years needed by a light-water reactor's spent nuclear fuel. It also permits the use of alternate nuclear fuels, such as thorium. ...ecause they have separate facilities to produce the solid fuel and process spent nuclear fuel. The MSFR can operate using a large variety of fuel compositions due to its

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