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FISSION AND REPROCESSING: HOW IT WORKS
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fission
Natural uranium occurs in two kinds of isotopes and less than 1% is U-235 which is fissionable.
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reprocessing
The concept of reprocessing is to take nuclear waste products, separate out the useful fission products, and use them over as fuel.
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