Uranium can be reused after the separation from the other products of the nuclear fission: uranium enriched with the isotope 235 as fissile material and depleted uranium (mainly the isotpoe 238) as fertile material.
New reactor fuel is uranium (oxide) which has had the U-235 isotope increased from 0.7 percent, which is how it now exists in nature on earth, to around 4 percent. The rest is non-fissile U-238. During reactor operation the U-235 is used up, and when the fuel is discharged it has fallen to somewhere near the natural percentage. At the same time during operation some of the U-238 is turned into plutonium by neutron capture. Pu-239 is the first isotope to be formed, and this is fissile so starts to contribute thermal energy to the reactor output. By the end of fuel life the fuel thermal output is partly from U-235 and partly from plutonium. It also contains highly active fission products, so it has to be stored under water for some time to allow the activity to decrease.
In the UK and France the fuel is then sent to a chemical processing plant where the uranium and plutonium can be separated. This is potentially a dangerous process and has to be designed and operated very carefully, but at the end depleted uranium and plutonium are available.
Technology has been developed to allow the mixing of plutonium with partly enriched uranium to form what is called Mixed Oxide Fuel (MOX) and this is now being produced in the UK and France.
In the US all spent fuel from commercial plants has been stored on site, and not processed at all. This has been justified I think on the basis that new fuel from freshly mined uranium is readily available and not expensive. There is also I believe a ban on transporting used fuel and processing it, placed by the Federal Government, so it's a political matter whether this policy will be changed in the future. See link below
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The nuclear fuel is found in the fuel rods. These fuel rods are formed into fuel bundles called fuel assemblies, and together they make up the reactor core.
The used fuel in a nuclear power plant is the nuclear fuel being discharged from the nuclear reactor after being irradiated during reactor operation. It is usually composed of trans-uranium heavy elements, a wide variety of fission products (that resulted from the nuclear fission processes in the nuclear reactor) and products of radioactive decay (produced before and after fuel discharge from the nuclear reactor).
Fuel in a nuclear reactor is located in the core of the reactor. It is there that the fuel, which is sealed (welded) inside plates or tubes, is situated in fuel bundles.
Nuclear fission
Carbon cannot be used as a nuclear fuel, either for fission or fusion.
Nuclear fuel is the fuel used to produce nuclear energy.
Nuclear power is NOT a fossil fuel.
what possible future nuclear fuel
The population of Korea Nuclear Fuel is 696.
Korea Nuclear Fuel was created in 1982.
Nuclear Fuel Complex was created in 1971.
Nuclear Fuel Complex's population is 3,600.
Uranium is a radioactive element used to fuel nuclear reactors. It is a nuclear fuel.
Uranium is a nuclear fuel.
Nuclear energy is not a fossil fuel or any fuel at all. Radiation is used to create energy. The energy is "the Fuel" petroleum
Uranium is not a fossil fuel; uranium is used as nuclear fuel for nuclear power reactors.
Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited's population is 2,040.