re nuclear waste in article mar mksol dseg ti com mccall mksol dseg ti com fred j mccall writes just a bit off phil we don t reprocess nuclear fuel because what you get from the reprocessing plant is bomb grade plutonium it is also cheaper given current prices of things to simply fabricate new fuel rods rather than reprocess the old ones creating potentially dangerous materials from a national security point of view and then fabricate that back into fuel rods fabricating with reprocessed plutonium may result in something that may go kind of boom but its hardly decent bomb grade plutonium if you want bomb grade plutonium use a research reactor not a power reactor but if you want a bomb don t use plutonium use uranium kenneth ng please reply to ken eies njit edu for now all this might be an elaborate simulation running in a little device sitting on someone s table j l picard st tng
