Shine Technologies, a Wisconsin company, proposes to build a standalone commercial reprocessing facility in the state to treat spent fuel from nuclear utilities. CEO Greg Piefer says the plant will likely incorporate an aqueous separation process. “It’s not just about recycling plutonium because there’s a tremendous amount of other valuable isotopes in the waste stream that are beneficial to humans,” he says. Separating those, he continues, “is much more easily done with an aqueous stream.”
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https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/77/2/22/3230671/US-takes-another-look-at-recycling-nuclear
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