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Engineering360: "Upping uranium fuel enrichment"

05/01/2025 9:30 AM

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Lehman57
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Re: Upping uranium fuel enrichment

05/01/2025 11:31 PM

Why do we need to enrich uranium? If we can get Gen IV (fast) reactors approved, enrichment will not be needed (except for initial startup as I understand.) A fast reactor will operate on U-235, U-238, natural uranium (mostly U-238,) thorium, and the reprocessed waste from thermal reactors.

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