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This question is not very simple. Uranium used as fuel in nuclear reactors is not all burned completely when it is no longer usable. The rest of uranium can by recycled, but spent fuel processing is extremely difficult and dangerous. Expended fuel is sitting around by the railroad car full for one reason: it is uniformly radioactive, and very highly so. Opening up spent fuel is not for the foolish or the untrained and unequipped. The hazards far outweigh the advantages, and it is far, far "easier" to store spent fuel than to do anything else with it. And that is why spent nuclear fuel storage is an issue now; reprocessing it is almost unspeakably "dirty" work.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoYes, uranium can be reused as nuclear fuel or for other applications.
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∙ 12y agoWe can consider uranium as recyclable but the processing of burned nuclear fuels is a difficult operation; and to use depleted uranium as nuclear fuel we need fast reactors, etc.
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