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Engineering360: "A new resource for chemical catalysis: Depleted uranium"

01/14/2020 4:28 PM

Read Engineering360 article: A new resource for chemical catalysis: Depleted uranium.

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Re: A new resource for chemical catalysis: Depleted uranium

01/15/2020 7:39 PM

I view DU not as a waste material, but as fuel for a fast neutron reactor. (This is instead of the thermal neutron reactors usually seen today.) The fast reactor is much more efficient, getting around 100 times more energy from the uranium.

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