文章來源:'Reprocess to reuse' nuclear waste is the way forward 文章來源:Fast Neutron Reactors
Many opine that there are real advantages of reprocessing of spent fuel: the amount of material that required for a specific amount of electrical production is reduced by a factor of 10; the cooling-off time of remaining waste material is reduced to around 400 years which otherwise would last many thousand years; and the volume of final waste is also reduced by roughly a factor of 10. Therefore, the final waste generated can be managed relatively easily through the ‘vitrification’ method. The closed fuel cycle also reduces the chances of proliferation or misappropriation of radioactive material.